ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1097

on the back and outside of all such official ballots shall be
printed only the words ''Official Ballot For, " followed by the
designation of the county, congressional, legislative or council-
manic district of Baltimore City or other district, as the case
may be, for which it is prepared and said several Boards of
Supervisors of Elections shall print or cause to be printed on
said official ballots the names of all candidates for office to be
voted for. and for delegates to any convention, or for party
executive or executives, or for membership of any executive
committee or managing body of any political party, who shall
become duly qualified by the payment of the amount herein
named, when any payment is herein required, and shall have
filed a certificate in writing with the Board of Supervisors
of Elections in Baltimore City or in any of the counties as the
case may be, containing the name of the person seeking a
nomination for office or to be a delegate to a convention, or an
executive or member of an executive committee or managing
body of a political party, his residence, place where he is a
registered voter, his address, the office or position for which
he seeks to be nominated or selected, and the party to which he
belongs, and duly acknowledged by the person filing such cer-
tificate for such nomination or selection before an officer duly
authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall append a cer-
tificate of such acknowledgment. The certificate to be filed by
a candidate seeking to be elected. as a delegate to a convention
shall, moreover, specify the convention to which he seeks to
be elected. All such certificates must be filed and payments
made by candidates for the nomination of Governor, Comp-
troller, Attorney General and clerk of the Court of Appeals not
less than thirty days before the day of said primary election
and by all other candidates not less than twenty days before
said primary election. The names of the several candidates for
nomination or for delegates, executive or member of an execu-
tive committee, or managing body of a political party afore-
said, shall be published seven days before the said election in
the mode prescribed in Section 49 of this Article, as far as may
he practicable. It shall not be necessary to print sample ballots
or cards of instructions for such elections but either or both
shall be printed by the Board of Supervisors of Elections of the
City of Baltimore, when requested by any candidate in said
primary election, said request to be accompanied by a sum of
money necessary to cover the cost of printing. Each candidate
for nomination for public office at a primary election shall pay
the sum of twenty-five ($25) dollars for each county or legisla-