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Baltimore city shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore; and all the expenses of holding said primary elec-
tions in each county respectively, shall be paid by the County
Commissioners of each county, respectively, precisely as the
expenses of the State, city and county elections are
now paid under existing laws; , provided, that the
ballots to be used at all primary elections to be
held in the several counties of the State shall be prepared and
printed by the Boards of Supervisors of Elections in the respec-
tive counties in a similar manner to that provided by this Arti-
cle for general elections in Baltimore city, and as provided in
section 54 of this Article for general elections, except that there
shall be no detachable stub or coupon to said ballot, and in
number not less than twice the number of registered voters of
the respective political parties participating in such primary,
as nearly as the same may be estimated, and shall be delivered
by such Boards of Supervisors of Election's to the election offi-
cials as herein provided for Baltimore city primary elections.
The said Boards of Supervisors of Elections for the several
counties shall at the same time print and distribute, five days
before such primary election, to any candidate ordering and
paying the cost of the same, any number of such official ballots
such candidates may desire. Said Supervisors shall also
cause to be furnished and delivered with such official ballots
to the proper election officials in each election district or voting
precinct in the several counties of the State, opaque, official
gummed envelopes of uniform size and of colors corresponding
to the official ballots of the respective political parties partici-
pating in such primaries sufficiently large to receive such offi-
cial ballot when folded. On the back and outside of all of
such official envelopes shall be printed the words, "Official
Envelope for Ballot," followed by the designation of the poll-
ing place for which it is prepared, the date of the primary
election, and a fac simile of the signature of the President of
the Board of Supervisors of Elections by whom the official
envelopes and ballots for said primary election have been pre-
pared. Said official envelopes shall be provided with a detacha-
ble stub or coupon in the same manner as is now provided by
law for official ballots, and the number of such envelopes so
furnished shall be in number twenty-five per cent more than
the estimated vote of the several political parties participat-
ing in such primary in such election district or precinct, as the
case may be.

160H. The names of candidates for nomination for each
office or for each place or position aforesaid, respectively, shall
be arranged alphabetically upon the ballots according to the
surnames of the candidates. Ballots in all said primary elec-