114 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

future General Election next preceding any primary election
to be held hereunder, as shall have polled ten per cent, of the
entire vote cast in the State at such or any such General Elec-
tion, shall hereafter nominate all their candidates for public
office in and for Baltimore city and the several counties of the
State and shall elect all delegates to county, legislative district,
city or State conventions and all members of managing bodies
in said political parties, in and for Baltimore city and the sev-
eral counties of the State, and all precinct, ward, city and
county executives, or executive committees, whenever the politi-
cal party usage provides for such executive committee or any of
the same, by means of primary elections, conducted under and
in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and not other-
wise, except as herein provided, and the several Boards of Su-
pervisors of Elections shall not print on the official ballot to be
voted at any general or special election to be hereinafter held
the name or names of any such candidate or candidates for
election in Baltimore city or any of the counties of the State
of any of said parties who shall not be so nominated, and whose
nomination shall not be certified to them, or to the Secretary of
State, as having been so nominated.

Provided, That the provisions of this sub-title requiring the
nomination of candidates by direct vote shall not apply to the
nomination of such candidates for County offices, State Senate,
and members of the House of Delegates in the Counties of
Howard, Somerset, Washington, Worcester, and Wicomico,
except as hereinafter provided, but such candidates shall be
selected by a county convention, delegates to which shall be
selected in all respects as provided for in this sub-title, and the
nomiantions of such candidates by such convention shall be
duly certified by the Chairman and Secretary of such conven-
tion to the Board of Election Supervisors of said County, and
it shall be the duty of said supervisors to place the names of
such candidates upon the official ballot in the manner pre-
scribed by the General Election Laws of this State, and pro-
vided further that at the first primary election held under the
provisions of the foregoing proviso in each of said named coun-
ties, the official ballots of the respective political parties partic-
ipating therein shall contain squares, properly designated, in
which the voters of such parties may by such cross mark in
such square indicate their preference for or against primaries
in their respective parties by direct vote for candidates for
county offices, for the State Senate, and for Members of the
House of Delegates; and provided further, that if the majority
of the votes cast by either of such parties in any such county
so excepted shall indicate a preference for direct primaries,
then and in that event, each county in which, by such direct