788 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 328

may be designated by the said Mayor and Commissioners, on
the first Monday in April in each year, and shall sit not lees
than eight (8) hours, and ten days' public notice of said sit-
ting and the places thereof shall be given by advertisement
by way of notices on handbills posted in not less than ten pub-
lic places within the corporate limits of'town of Barton.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said registration offi-
cers shall sit on the tenth day next preceding and exclusive of
the date of any election for officials of said town of Barton,
at the same places at which the election is to be held between
the hours of 7 P. M. and 9 P. M. to receive nominations. Any
person desiring to have his name placed upon the official ballot
at the ensuing election shall at such time present to said regis-
tration officers a petition setting forth his name, residence, age,
whether he is a citizen of the United States and the length
of time he has lived in the town of Barton, and the office which
he seeks, and such petition shall be signed by at least twenty
qualified voters. No signature shall be counted if it shall be
upon more than one nomination paper of a candidate for Mayor
or Clerk or if upon more than four nomination papers of can-
didates for Commissioners. Immediately after the sitting of
said registration officers for the purpose of receiving petitions
of nominations as aforesaid, they shall report to the Mayor
and Commissioners of Barton the name or names of those so
nominated and the said Mayor and Commissioners shall forth-
with make up the official ballot from the names of qualified
voters so submitted to them and no name shall be placed upon
said ballot by the said Mayor and Commissioners except such
as shall be certified to them as having been properly nominated
by said registration officials as above set out and no ballots shall
be accepted or counted by the judges of election except those
in manner and form as herein prescribed for the official ballot.
There shall be a square at the right of the name of each candi-
date arid a blank space at the end of the list of candidates for
each office with a square opposite said blank space, so that any
voter may write therein the name of any person for whom he
may wish to vote for any office, whose name may not appear
upon the official ballot.

The official ballot shall be printed and supplied to the judges
of election by the Mayor and Commissioners of Barton and
shall be printed as nearly as practicable in accordance with the
following form; the date and names to be changed, but the
names of all candidates for their particular office to be arranged