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ACT. 33. ] ELECTIONS. 143

of the party for which said. chairman may be acting, giving the
vote received by each candidate in each of the several counties
and legislative districts respectively in the primaries of the
party for which said chairman may be acting. It shall also be
the duty of the chairman of the State Central Committee for the
whole State of each of said political parties to certify to both
houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the names of the
persons of the political party for which each chairman may be
acting for whom the greatest number of votes were cast in each
county and in each legislative district of Baltimore city at any
Senatorial primary election under the provisions of this Act, at
which such persons were candidates for nomination for United
States Senator, said certificate to be made and filed upon the
first day of the session of such General Assembly convening
next after such primary election.

SEC. 8. The chairman of the State Central Committee of
each of said parties upon receiving the itemized statement of ex-
penses in conducting said Senatorial primaries in the several
counties or legislative districts of Baltimore city, shall tabulate
all of said statements and calculate the total cost of holding
primary elections throughout the State, and he shall thereupon
levy an assessment upon the candidates for the said total cost.
Each candidate for United States Senator shall bear his pro-
portionate part of the estimated expenses. Such assessment
shall be paid by the candidates not later than the 20th day of
October, and in default of such payment the candidate or candi-
dates so in default shall be presumed to have withdrawn from
the contest and his or their name shall not be printed upon the
ballot.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That the candidate of any
political party in said Senatorial primary election who shall re-
ceive the greatest number of votes cast by the voters of said
party at such primary election in any county of the State of
Maryland or in any legislative district of Baltimore city shall
be entitled to and receive the votes of the candidates of such
political party who may be elected to represent said county or
district of Baltimore city in the next General Assembly ensuing
said primary election for the position of United States Senator
for the term to be filled by the said General Assembly.

SEC. 10. And be it farther enacted, That the provisions all
and singular of Sections 87 to 115 inclusive of Article 33 of the
Code of Public General Laws of 1904 and the offenses defined
and the penalties and punishments prescribed therefor in said
sections, shall be fully applicable in all respects to the same per-
sons, matters, acts and omissions in connection with or pertain-
ing to the Senatorial primary elections held under this Act and

 

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