ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 29. And be it enacted, That all laws in-
consistent with the provisions of this law are
hereby repealed.

Repealed.

SEC. 30. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after the first Monday in
January, in the year eighteen hundred and
ninety.

Approved April 4, 1888.

Chapter 290.

AN ACT to protect the primary elections of the
Democratic party, and other voluntary politi-
cal associations, and to punish frauds therein
by adding certain sections to the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, article seventeen, title " Queen
Anne's County," under the sub-title "Primary
Elections."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-

Effective.

sembly of Maryland, That the following sections
be added to the Code of Public Local Laws, ar-
ticle seventeen, title "Queen Anne's County,"
under the sub-title "Primary Elections."
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every primary

Additional
sections.

election hereafter to be held by the democratic
party in Queen Anne's county for delegates to
county conventions of said party of said county
for the nomination of candidates, or other pur-
poses, shall be held under the terms and subject
to the provisions of this act.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the state Cen-
tral committee of the democratic party for said

Provision for
holding elec-
tions.

county shall call all said primary elections, and
its order therefor shall contain the call for the
primary election then to be held, its purpose,
the day when and the hours of the day when it
is to be held, the places where to be held, the
qualifications of the persons who may vote
thereat, and that said election is to be held
under and subject to the provisions of this act ;
and such order shall be published at least once

Authority of
state central
committee.