212 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

office in and for Baltimore City, and the several Counties of
the State and for Judges and for the House of Representatives
of the Federal Congress, and shall elect all delegates to County,
Legislative District, Congressional, City and State Conventions,
and all members of managing bodies in said political parties
in and for Baltimore City and the several Counties of the State,
and all precinct, ward, City and County executives or executive
committees, whenever the political party usage provides for
such executive committees or any of the same, by means of pri-
mary elections conducted under and in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Act, and not otherwise, except as herein specific-
ally provided, and the several Boards of Supervisors of Elec-
tions shall not print on the official ballot to be voted at any
general or special election to be hereafter held the name or
names of any such candidate or candidates for election in Balti-
more 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, Washington and Worcester, except as hereinafter pro-
vided; but such candidates shall be selected by County Con-
vention, delegates to which shall be selected in all respects as
provided for in this sub-title, and the nomination of such can-
didates by such convention shall be duly certified by the Chair-
man and Secretary of such Convention to the Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors of said County; and it shall be the duty of
said Supervisors to place the name of such candidates upon the
official ballots in the manner prescribed by the General Elec-
tion Laws of this State.

Provided further that at the primary election held in the
year 1915, in and for Howard County the official ballots of the
respective political parties participating therein, shall contain
a square, properly designated, in which the voters of such par-
ties may by a cross mark in such square, indicate their prefer-
ence for or against direct primaries for the nomination of can-
didates for State Senator, members of the House of Delegates
and County officers in and for Howard County, and provided
further, that if a majority of the votes cast by the respective
political parties participating shall indicate a preference for
direct primaries then and in that event Howard County shall