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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 407

the present books of registry shall be used, and the judges
shall therein make a column, headed voted at primary elec-
tion of ———— , and enter in like manner therein the word
voted, or letter V. Persons arriving at the age of twenty-one
years after the closing of the next preceding registration, and
entitled to be registered as qualified voters, shall be entitled
to vote upon proving under oath to the satisfaction of a
majority of the judges of election their right to registration in

Qualified as
voters.

the precinct at which they shall claim the right to vote; offi-
cial ballots shall be prepared for such primary elections by
the several boards of supervisors of elections, as is now
provided by said Article 33, and said several boards of
supervisors shall print on said official ballots the names of
all candidates and the names of all delegates to any conven-
tion or nominating convention who shall become duly quali-
fied by the payment of the amount herein named, and shall
have filed a certificate in writing containing the name of the
person seeking a nomination, his residence, his business, his
address, the office for which he seeks to be nominated, and
the party to which he belongs; and the certificate for dele-
gations to contain the names of each person or delegate, his
residence, his business, his address, the convention to which
the delegation seeks to be elected, and the party to which
the members of the delegation belong, and acknowledged by

Certificates of
delegations.

the candidate where the certificate is filed by a candidate
seeking a nomination, and by a member of a delegation on
his part, and on the part of the delegation, when filed on
behalf of a delegation, before an officer duly authorized to
take acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such
acknowledgment; all such certificates must be filed and pay-
ments 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 convention
shall be published two days before said election, in the mode
prescribed in Section 44 of said Article 33, as far as practi-
cable; it shall not be necessary to print sample ballots or

Sample
ballots.

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