384 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 200

assessed value of $500. 00 claimed to be owned, and in case of
Councilman the ward in which he lives, and such petition shall
be signed by at least twenty qualified voters and in. case of a
candidate for Councilman at least a majority of these voters
shall reside within the limits of the ward for which he is a
candidate. No signature shall be counted if it shall be upon
more than one nomination paper of a candidate for Mayor or
Town Clerk and Treasurer, or more than one nomination paper
of candidates for Councilmen from the same ward.
A certificate in the following form shall be- sufficient:

Certificate of Nomination.

To the Supervisors of Election of Mount Rainier, Maryland:

I hereby request, that you print my name on the official

Ballot to be used in the Town Election to be held...........

as a candidate for................ and I do hereby certify

that my name is..................; I am.......... years

old; I. am a resident of the.............. Ward; and have

lived in the Town for........... years; and I am the owner

of Real Estate in said Town in my own name to the amount
of $500. 00 as per deed recorded in Liber...... No.........

folio......... one of the Land Records of Prince George's

County, Maryland.

We, the undersigned, qualified electors request the candi-
dacy of

Name. Street. Ward.

No petition of nomination shall be received by said Super-
visors of Election after said meeting, except that in the event
of any vacancy occurring in any nominations on said date, or
between said date and the date of election, the Supervisors
shall, if possible, appoint another time for receiving nomina-
tions to fill such vacancy on the ballot, which nominations
shall be in all respects the same as those hereinbefore provided
for. Immediately after the sitting of said Supervisors of Elec-
tion for the purpose of receiving petitions of nomination as
aforesaid, the said Supervisors of Election shall make up the
official ballot from the names of qualified voters so submitted
to them and no name shall be placed upon said ballot by said
Supervisors except such as shall be presented to them by peti-
tion of nomination as above set out. A fac simile of the official