118 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

executive or executives, or for membership of any executive
committee or managing body of any political party, who shall
become duly qualified by the payment of the amount herein
named, when any payment is herein required, and shall have
filed a certificate in writing with the Board of Supervisors of
Elections in Baltimore city or in any of the counties, as the
case may be, containing the name of the person seeking a nomi-
nation for office or to be a delegate to a convention, or an execu-
tive or member of an executive committee or managing body of
a political party, his residence, place where he is a registered
voter, his address, the office or position for which he seeks to be
nominated or selected, and the party to which he belongs, and
duly acknowledged by the person filing such certificate for such
nomination or selection before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such
acknowledgment. The certificate to be filed by a candidate
seeking to be elected as a delegate to a convention shall, more-
over, specify the convention to which he seeks to be elected.
All such certificates must be field and payments made not less
than fifteen days before the day of said primary election. The
names of the several candidates for nomination or for delegates,
executive or member of an executive committee, or managing
body of a political party aforesaid, shall be published seven
days before the said election in the mode prescribed in. section
44 of said Article 33, as far as may be practicable. It shall not
be necessary to print sample ballots or cards of instructions
for such elections, but either of both shall be printed by the
Board of Supervisors of Elections of the city of Baltimore,
when requested by any candidate in said primary election, said
request to be accompanied by a sum of money necessary to cover
the cost of printing. Each candidate for nomination for public
office at a primary election shall pay the sum of twenty-five
dollars ($25) for each county or legislative district of Balti-
more city in which his name appears upon the ballot; provided,
that in any county where the salary of the office for which nom-
ination is sought is three hundred dollars ($300) or less, such
payment shall be ten dollars ($10) ; and if a candidate for Gov-
ernor, Attorney-General, Comptroller, or Clerk of the Court of
Appeals of the State, then he shall pay the sum of ten dollars
($10) for each county or legislative district of Baltimore city,
upon filing his respective certificate with the Board of Super-
visors of Elections; and the Board of Supervisors for Balti-
more city shall pay over the amount so received to the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, and the Board of Supervisors
of Elections for each county, shall pay over the amount so
received to the County Commissioners of each county, respec-
tively ; and all the expenses of each of said primary elections in