PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 459

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, that Sections 48, 54 and 57 of Article 33 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Elections"
as repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 124 of the Acts of 1912,
be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 48. At least eight days before an election to fill any
public office the Supervisors of Election of each County and
in the city of Baltimore shall cause to be published in two or
more newspapers within such county, except in Howard County,
where the Supervisors of Election may publish in one newspa-
per, and in all the daily papers published in said city which will
publish the same at the current rate for advertising the nomi-
nations to office which have been filed with or certified to them
under the provisions of this Article, if in any county there be
but one newspaper published, publication in such one newspa-
per shall be sufficient; they shall make not less than two such
publications in each of such newspapers before the day of elec-
tion, and one of such publications in each newspaper shall be
upon the last day upon which said newspaper is issued before
the day of election. Such publications shall be made in news-
papers devoted to the dissemination of general news; and the
two newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the politi-
cal parties which at the last preceding election cast the largest
and next largest number of votes. The list of nominations pub-
lished by the Supervisors of Elections shall be arranged, so far
as practicable, in the order and form in which they are to be
printed upon the ballots.

SEC. 54. The form and arrangement of the ballots shall be
as follows: All ballots shall contain the name of every candidate
whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot has been
certified to and filed according to the provisions of this Article,
and not withdrawn in accordance herewith. The names of can-
didates for every office shall, except in the case of candidate for
Presidential Electors, be arranged alphabetically according to
their surname, under the designation of the office. Above the
group of names of the candidates for each office and upon a sep-
arate line immediately underneath the designation of the office,
there shall be printed in bold, plain roman capitals, twelve point
(pica) type, an appropriate direction or instruction to the voter,
informing him of the number of persons for whom he may law-
fully vote for the particular office mentioned immediately above
each such direction, thus: "Vote for one" or "Vote for two"