ACT. 33. ] ELECTIONS. 107

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That 23 new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws of
1904, title "Elections, " sub-title "Primary Elections, " said new
sections to come in after Section 160, and to be called Section
160A, 160B, 160C, 160D, 160E, 160F, 160G, 160H, 160I, 160J, 160K,
160L, 160M, 160. N, 160O, 160P, 160Q, 160R, 160S, 160T, 160U, 160,.
160W, and to read severally as follows:

SEC. 160A. Political parties which at the general election of
November 5th, 1907, or any future general election next preced-
ing any primary to be held hereunder, polled ten per cent, of
the entire vote cast in the several counties of the State, shall
hereafter nominate their candidates for public office in said
counties and shall elect all delegates to conventions or manag-
ing bodies in said political parties and all county executives or
executive committees, not appointed by a party convention,
whenever the political usage provides for such executive or
committee, by means of primary elections conducted under the
provisions of this Act and not otherwise. All candidates may
be nominated by direct vote of the whole number of registered
voters belonging to or acting with such parties in every pre-
cinct, Congressional, judicial or election district and counties
in the said several counties, respectively, or they may be nomi-
nated by a county or district convention, the delegates to which
shall be elected at a primary election duly held in the precinct,
Congressional, election or judicial district or county, or they
may be nominated by State or other convention composed of
delegates elected by the county, judicial or Congressional con-
vention, the delegates to which last mentioned several conven-
tions shall be elected at said primary election, as shall be deter-
mined upon from time to time by the State Central Com-
mittee or other governing body of said political parties; pro-
vided that it shall not be lawful for the governing body of any
political party, whose rules or regulations or custom hereto-
fore have been to nominate any of its candidates for any public
office or offices by direct vote of the members of such party in
any county or according to the method known as the Crawford
county plan, to deprive the registered voters in such county of
such privileges to vote directly for candidates for such office or
offices, without first submitting any proposed change in this
regard to the vote of the registered voters of said party in any
county of this State. The said primary election shall be held
annually on such days in the several counties respectively as
the State Central Committee or governing body of the said
parties for the State may determine upon for State, judicial
and Congressional primary elections and as the State Central