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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

To be kept f o
one year.

270 K K. The Board of Supervisors of Elections shall cause
r to be preserved in their office for one year all certificates of
nomination filed with them under the provisions of this Article.
All such certificates shall be open to public inspection.
270 L L. Except in cases provided for by section 270 o o, and

When to be
filed.

cases of special elections to fill vacancies in office caused by
death, resignation or otherwise, such certificates of nomination
shall be filed with the Board of Supervisors of Elections not
less than ten days before the day of election.
270 M M. At least eight days before an election to fill any

List of nomi-
nations to
be pub-
lished.

. office herein provided for, the Supervisors of Elections shall
cause to be published in two newspapers within said city,
which will publish the same at their current rates for adver-
tising, the nominations to office which have then been filed
with or certified to them under the provisions of this Article.
They shall make not less than two such publications in each of
sucty newspapers before the day of election, and one of such
publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last day
upon which said newspaper is issued before the day of elec-
tion. Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted
to the dissemination of general news, and the two newspapers
selected shall, if possible, represent the political parties which
at the last preceding election cast the largest and next largest
number of votes. The list of nominations published by the
Supervisors of Elections shall be arranged, so far as practica-
ble, in the order and form in which they are to be printed
upon the ballots.
270 N N. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as
in this Article provided, shall, at least ten days before election,

Declination
of nomina-
tion.

in a writing signed by him and acknowledged before a justice of
the peace, or if he be out of the State at the time, before a notary
public, notify the officer with whom the certificate nominating
him is, by this Article, required to be tiled, that he declines such
nomination, such nominations shall be void, and the name of any
person so declining shall not be printed upon the ballots.
270 O O. Should any person so nominated die before election
day or decline the nomination, as in this Article provided, or
should any certificate of nomination be or become insufficient
or inoperative from any cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus

Vacancies in
nomina-
tions, how
to be filled.

occasioned may be filled in the manner required for original
nominations. If the original nomination was made by a party
convention which had delegated to a committee the power to
fill vacancies, such committee may, upon the occurring of such
vacancies, proceed to fill the same, the chairman and secretary