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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of them, be in its or his custody permit the same to be freely
inspected by any one wishing to do so, such inspection shall be

Inspection of
registers.

made in the presence of a member 'or members of the said
Board of Supervisors or of their elerk or of the said board of
registry, or of those members of the board of registry in whose
custody the said registers may be, and not otherwise. Said
Board of Supervisors and said board of registry shall, upon
application, fnrnish a copy of any entry in said register, and
eaid copy, under their hands, shall be evidence in any Court or
before any officer, of the matters therein contained.

NOMINATIONS.
270 F F. Any convention or primary meeting, as herein-

How nomina-
tions may
be made.

after defined, held for the purpose of making nominations to
public office, and also voters to the number hereinafter speci-
tied, may nominate candidates for public office to be filled by
election within Frederick City. A convention or primary
meeting, within the meaning of this Article, is an organized
assemblage of delegates or voters, representing a political
party or principle which at the last election before the hold-
ing of such convention, polled at least one per cent, of the
entire vote cast in Frederick City. Nominations may b« made
by means of primary elections without the intervention of
any convention, by any party which, at the last preceding
election, polled the requisite proportion of votes as herein-
before specified.
270 G G. All nominations made by such convention or
primary meetings shall be certified as follows : The certificate
of nomination shall be in writing, shall contain the name of

Nominations
by conven-
tions or
primaries.

each person nominated, his residence, his business, his business
address, and the office for which he is nominated, and shall
designate, in not more than five words, the party or principal
which such convention or primary meeting represents. It
shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such
convention, who shall add to their signatures their respective
places of residence, their business and business address, and
acknowledge the same before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such
acknowledgment thereto. If the nomination is by means of a
primary election, the certificate shall be signed and acknowl-
edged by the person or persons whose duty it may be, by party
usage, to declare the result of such election in the manner
prescribed for a nomination by a convention. A party
emblem or device may be added to the certificate, provided it
shall be referred to and identified in said acknowledgment.