PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 461

dent of the United States shall be arranged in groups, as pre-
sented in the several certificates of nomination papers, and the
several groups shall be arranged in such order of the surnames
of the candidates for President as the several Boards of Super-
visors shall prescribe in the city of Baltimore, and in the several
counties respectively. If candidates for Presidential Electors,
are nominated at large and for the several Congressional dis-
tricts, the name and place of residence of the candidates at large
shall be put at the head of each group, and the names of the other
candidates, with their places of residence, including the num-
bers of the Congressional district in which they reside, shall fol-
low in numerical order. The surname of the candidates of each
political party for the office of President and Vice-President
with the party name at the right of the surname, shall be placed
above the group of candidates for electors of such party. There
shall be left at the right of the surname of the candidate for
President and Vice-President, so formed as to include both
names, and to the right of the name of each elector, a sufficient
clear square in which each voter may designate by a cross (X)
his choice for electors. All candidates for office shall as far as
possible, be placed in one column, but when the names to be
printed upon the ticket are over thirty-six, then another column
shall be added in which names shall be printed, and when two
or more columns are used the same number of names shall, as
far as possible, be printed in each column. And the initial
letters of the given or Christian name of the several candidates
in each column shall be printed directly beneath each other in
a vertical line. A constitutional amendment, or any question
to be submitted to the popular vote shall be printed in a separ-
ate column to follow immediately after the names of candi-
dates.

SEC. 57. All said ballots in all elections in and throughout
the State of Maryland, including all the counties thereof and Bal-
timore City, shall be printed in the same uniform type upon plain
white printing paper of ordinary book weight in black ink, and
the names of all candidates and their several party designations
shall be printed upon all ballots which may be used in any and
all elections in every county of the State and in the city of
Baltimore, in the following type, to wit: in clear, plain, bold
and legible roman capitals, twelve point, generally known as
pica style, one-eighth of an inch high, or in depth, and the
printing of said names of said candidates and of their respect-
ive party designations, shall also be uniform in style and ap-