882 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 399

CHAPTER 399.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 43 of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Elec-
tions," as said section was enacted by Chapter 751 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1914.

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 43 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Elections," as the same was enacted by
Chapter 751 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1914, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

43. A candidate for public office, including candidates for
the office of United States Senator from Maryland, may be
nominated otherwise than by a convention or primary election
in the manner following: A certificate of nomination contain-
ing the names of a candidate for office to be filled with such
information as is required to be given in certificate provided
for in Section 42 of this Article, with the additional statement
that the persons signing the same intend to vote for the person
nominated thereby shall be signed by voters in numbers as
follows residing in the political division in and for which the
officer is to be elected—that is to say: The number of signa-
tures so required shall not be less than two thousand when the
nomination is for an office to be filled by an election partici-
pated in by the voters of the entire State, and not less than fif-
teen hundred when the nomination is for an office to be filled by
an election to be participated in by the voters of an entire Con-
gressional district or of the City of Baltimore, and not less than
seven hundred and fifty when the nomination is for an office
to be filled by an election to be participated in by the voters
of the entire cities of Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland, or
Hagerstown, and not less than five hundred for nominations
for all other elections; and provided also, that the said
signatures need not all be appended to one paper, but if the
signatures be appended to more than one paper, all such papers
must be fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each
signer shall append to his signature his residence, occupation
and place of business, and every such paper shall be accom-
panied by an affidavit or affidavits made before a justice of the
peace by one or more persons known personally to the justice
and so certified by him and signed by the affiant or affiants to
the effect that the signers are known to such affiant or affiants