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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 406

condition for travel shall not exceed the sum of five thou-
sand dollars.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1906.

CHAPTER 407.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with an amendment Section
152 of Article 33 of the Public General Laws, title
"Elections," sub-title "Primary Elections," as enacted
by Chapter 682 of the Acts of 1904.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Nominations
by political
parties.

land, That Section 152 of Article 33 of the public general
laws, title "Elections," sub-title "Primary Elections," be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows: Political parties which at the general elec-
tion held on November 3, 1903, polled ten per cent, of the
entire vote cast in the State, shall hereafter nominate their can-
didates for public office, and shall elect all delegates to con-
ventions, 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 com-
mittees, by means of primary elections conducted under the
provisions of this Act, and not otherwise; and the several
boards of supervisors of elections shall not print on the official
ballot to be voted at any general or special election to be here-
after held the names of any candidates of any of said parties
who shall not be so nominated, and whose nominations shall

Nominated by
direct vote.

not be certified to them or to the Secretary of State as having
been so nominated; such candidates may be nominated by
direct vote of the duly registered voters belonging to or
acting with such parties in every precinct, ward, council-
manic, legislative, congressional and election district in Bal-
timore 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 elections
duly held in precincts, wards, election, councilmanic, legis-
lative, congressional and judicial districts, or they may be
nominated by State or other conventions composed of dele-