LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR.

It may consist of one object or of several objects in combination,
and when printed on its proper ballot, shall not occupy more
than two and one-half inches in height and two inches in
breadth. Said emblem must not, in the judgment of the
officer or officers with whom the certificate is filed, too closely
resemble any other party emblem previously designated.

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270 H H. A candidate for public office may be nominated
otherwise than by convention or primary election in the man-
ner following : A certificate of nomination containing the
names of a candidate for the office to be filled, with such in-
formation as is required to be given in certificates provided for
in section 270 G G of this Article, with the additional state-
ment that the persons signing the same intend to vote for the
person to be nominated thereby, shall be signed by voters in
numbers as follows, residing in the political division in and for
which the officer is to be elected, that is to say : The number
of signatures so required shall not be less than three hundred,
when the nomination is for an office to be filled by an election
to be participated in by the voters of the entire city of Fred-
erick, and provided also, that the said signatures need not all
be appended to one paper ; but if the signatures are ap-
pended to more than one paper all such, papers must be
fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each signer
shall append to his signature his residence, occupation and
place of business, and every such paper shall be accompanied
by an affidavit or affidavits made before a justice of the
peace by one or more persons known personally to the justice
and so certified by him and signed by the affiant or affiants,
to the effect that the signers are known to such affiant or
affiants, to be registered voters of the district or precinct in
which they respectively reside, and that the said affiant, or
affiants, personally saw the signers in regard to whom he or
they make oath sign such paper, and any wilfully false state-
ment in such affidavit or affidavits, or affirmation, shall be
deemed a misdemeanor, and shall subject the person making
the same to the fine and penalties prescribed by the law of
this State for the crime of perjury.

Nominations
otherwise
than by con-
ventions or
primaries.

270 I I. Certificates of nomination shall be filed with the
Supervisors of Election of Frederick City.
270 J J No certificate of nomination shall contain the name

Filing of cer-
tificates of
nomina-
tion.

of more than one nominee for each office to be filled. No
person shall join in nominating more than one nominee for
each office to be filled, and no person shall accept a nomination
to more than one office.

To contain
but one
nominee for
each office.