EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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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 con-
vention shall pay the sum of five dollars upon filing 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 hereinbefore
provided, every candidate having complied with the pre-requi-
sites shall have the privilege of having his name placed on
the official ballot; before the name 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 the manner 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
as having been voted. Whenever the name of any candidate
is so placed upon the ballot, the candidate's surname shall

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determine his place upon the alphabetical arrangement as
hereinbefore provided in this Article, upon said ballot, and
the names of his delegates shall follow immediately after
his name in such order as submitted to the board of super-
visors of elections. Ballots shall be cast, counted and
canvassed, and the result of the election announced and
certified, as now provided by said Article 33, for elections
held thereunder, and the said elections shall be held and
conducted in the manner and form provided by this article
for general elections, and subject to all the regulations,
requirements and provisions as prescribed by this article
for general elections, in so far as the same is applicable to
said primary elections. Challengers and watchers repre-

Alphabetical
arrangement

senting the candidates shall be allowed to be present at
the several voting places during the voting and counting of
the ballots, as provided in said Article 33. As many dif-
ferent sets of official ballots shall be printed and supplied

Challengers
and watchers