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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 296.

taining the name of the person seeking a nomination, his resi-
dence, his business, his address, the office for which he seeks to
be nominated, and the party to which he belongs ; and the
certificate for delegations to contain the names of each person
or delegate, his residence, his business, his address, the conven-
tion to which the delegation seeks to be elected, and the party
to which the members of the delegation belong; and acknowl-
edged by the candidate, where the certificate is filed by a
candidate seeking a nomination ; and by a member of a dele-
gation on his part and on the part of the delegation when
filed on behalf of a delegation, before an officer duly author-
ized to take acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate
of such acknowledgment. All such certificates must be tiled

Names of
candidates
to be
published.

and payments made not less than fifteen days before the day or
days of said several primary elections. The names of the
several candidates or of the several delegates to be elected at
said primary election to any convention or nominating conven-
tion shall be published two days before said election, in the
mode prescribed in section 44 of said Article 33, as far as
practicable. It shall not be necessary to print sample ballots
or cards of instruction for such elections, but either or both
shall be printed by the Board of. Supervisors of Elections of
the city of Baltimore or counties of the State, respectively, when
requested by any candidate or delegate, said request to be
accompanied by a sum of money necessary to cover the cost of
printing. Each candidate for nomination for public office at
a primary election shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars,
and each delegation to a nominating convention shall pay the
sum of five dollars upon the filing of their certificate with the
Supervisors of Elections, and the said Board of Supervisors
shall pay over the amount so received to the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore City, and the County Commissioners of
each county, and all the expenses of holding said elections shall
be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the
County Commissioners, respectively, precisely as the expenses of
State, city and county elections are now paid under existing law.
If such nominations are to be made by conventions as here-
inbefore provided, every candidate having complied with the

Name place
on official
ballot.

prerequisites shall have the privilege of having hip name
a placed on the official ballot, before the names of that set of
delegates selected by him or running in his interest, and every
vote cast for said candidate by marking in the square opposite
his name in mariner and form provided by this Article shall
be construed and counted for his entire set of delegates
unless there is a mark opposite any name in his set of dele-
gates, in which event only those names in that particular set
of delegates marked in the square opposite shall be counted