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CHAP. 896.
How
candidates
shall be
nominated.
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in the State shall hereafter nominate their candidates for
public office and shall elect all delegates to conventions or
managing bodies in said political parties, and all precinct, ward,
city and county executives or executive committees, not
appointed by party conventions, whenever the political
party usage provides for such executives or committees,
by means of primary elections conducted under the pro-
visions of this Act and not otherwise ; and the several
Boards of Supervisors of Elections shall not print on the offi-
cial ballot to be voted at any general or special election to be
hereafter held the names of any candidates of any of said
parties who shall not be so nominated and whose nominations
shall not be certified to them or to the Secretary of State as
having been so nominated. Such candidates may be nomi-
nated by direct vote of the duly registered voters belonging
to or acting with such parties in every precinct, ward, coun-
cilmanic, legislative, congressional and election district in
Baltimore city and the several counties respectively ; or they
may be nominated by city, county or district conventions,
the delegates to which shall be elected at primary ejections
duly held in precincts, wards, election, councilmanic, legisla-
tive, congressional and judicial districts; or they may be
nominated by State or other conventions composed of dele-
gates elected by city, county, councilmanic, legislative,
judicial or congressional district conventions, the delegates,
to which last mentioned several conventions shall have
been elected at said primary elections, as shall be determined
from time to time by the State Central Committee or other
governing body of said political parties. Said primary
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When
election shall
be held.
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election shall be annually held on a day to be fixed for Bal-
timore city and the several counties, respectively, by agree-
ment between the governing bodies of said parties, not earlier
than the second Thursday in June and not later than the third
Thursday of September in each year. The day for holding
such primary elections need not be the same in Baltimore city
and in the several counties, but between the above named
dates, may be held in Baltimore city and in the several
counties upon days which shall be so agreed on. And in case
said governing bodies shall fail to agree on the day for hold-
ing said primary elections either in the city of Baltimore
or in any of the counties, they shall be held in said city and in
said counties on the first Thursday of September in each year.
Notice shall be given of the times and places of holding said
primary elections by the several Boards of Supervisors of
Elections in the same way precisely as notice is required to be
given for municipal and county elections held under the pro-
visions of said Article 33 of .the Code of Public General
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