ACT. 33. ] ELECTIONS. 139
warmed and lighted by said State Central Committees, and
said polling places shall in all cases be upon the ground floor
of a building, and shall be as near the center of the voting pop-
ulation of the precinct and as convenient to the greatest num-
ber of voters as may be practicable (not, however, to be within
one hundred feet of the polling place appointed under Section
12 of Article 33 of the Code, for the purposes of holding the
general election under said article therein) and in no case shall
said polling place be held in any building, or part of a build-
ing, used or occupied as a saloon, dram shop, pool room, bil-
liard hall or bowling alley, and if no suitable place is found,
the State Central Committee for the legislative district or
county in question shall provide one. There shall be a separate
and distinct polling place, as aforesaid, for the Senatorial pri-
mary conducted by each of the political parties aforesaid and
such polling place of one political party shall not be within one
hundred yards of the polling place of any other political party.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That each candidate for
the nomination of any political party aforesaid for Senator in
the Congress of the United States must file with the chairman
of the State Central Committee for the whole State of Maryland
of the party to which said candidate belongs, a certificate in
writing containing the name of such candidate seeking said
nomination, his residence, his business, his address and the polit-
ical party to which he belongs, and acknowledged by said candi-
date before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments,
who shall append a certificate of such acknowledgment; and
such certificate of said candidate must be so filed not less than
thirty-five days before the date of said Senatorial primary elec-
tion. Not less than thirty days before said Senatorial primary
election it shall be the duty of the chairman of the State Central
Committee for the whole State of Maryland of each of said
political parties to publish in three daily newspapers in Balti-
more city and in one or more newspapers in each county of the
State, the fact that such Senatorial primary election shall take
place and also the names of the candidates of the political
party for which such chairman of the State Central Committee
may be acting for the nomination of that party for United
States Senator, and also setting forth accurately the location
of each polling place of said party for said Senatorial primary,
the polling places in Baltimore city to be published in said Bal-
timore city newspapers and the polling places for each county
to be published in the newspaper of county aforesaid; and in
each of said publications the date of said Senatorial primary
election and the hours during which the polls shall be open
shall also be published.
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