110 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

registered voters of the State of Maryland, shall have the
right to submit his candidacy for said nomination for such
office to a direct vote of the registered voters in each county
and in each legislative district of Baltimore city belonging to
the political party of which the candidate is a member and
whose nomination for such office he is seeking; and every candi-
date for a nomination of any political party aforesaid for a
State office shall be nominated by a direct vote of the duly
registered voters belonging to the party to which such candi-
date belongs in each county and legislative district aforesaid
and in the manner herein provided, that is to say, the candi-
date of any political party aforesaid for any such State office
receiving the greatest number of votes of his party in any
county or any legislative district of Baltimore city for such
office in a primary election to be held in each of said counties
and legislative districts shall be entitled to and receive the
votes in the State convention of his party of the delegates from
such county or counties or legislative district or districts in
said State convention. The said vote of the registered voters
of each of said political parties in each of said counties and
legislative districts shall be binding on the delegates to and in
the State convention of each of said parties from said counties
and legislative districts respectively so as to require said dele-
gates from each of said counties and legislative districts to
vote for the candidate for any State office who in said primary
election shall have received the greatest number of votes cast
by the registered voters of his. party in the county or legis-
lative district from which said delegates in the State convention
shall have been elected for the particular State office in ques-
tion; and the candidate for such office receiving the greatest
number of votes in said State convention for the nomination
for such State office shall be the candidate of the party there-
for. The chairman of the State Central Committee for the
whole State of each of said political parties shall fix and ascer-
tain a day or days for holding the primary elections for nomi-
nations for State offices in each of the counties of the State,
and shall, within thirty days before the time for holding such
primary elections, notify, by notice sent through the mail to
the chairman of the State Central Committee of his party in
each of the counties of the date so fixed and ascertained by him
for said primary elections, and shall also publish the date by
advertisement in two daily newspapers published in the city of
Baltimore, and the day so fixed and ascertained by such chair-
man for said primary elections for nominations for State offices
may be the same day upon which the primary elections for
nominations for county offices are to be held under the pro-