ALBERT C. RITCHIE. GOVERNOR. 1099

plus ballots shall be delivered by the Supervisors of Elections
to the Police Commissioner, and they shall be retained in his
charge or that of an officer designated by him who shall supply
them to any judge of election for use on election day as above
provided.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 424.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 49 of
Article 33 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Maryland, title,
"Elections, " so as to eliminate the requirement that nomi-
nations be published two times prior to election and provid-
ing that such nominations shall be published one time prior
to election.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 49 of Article 33 of Bagby's Annotated Code
of Maryland, title "Elections, ' be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

49. Within not less than two nor more than ten days before
an election to fill any public office, the Supervisors of Elections
of each county and in the City of Baltimore shall cause to be
published by one insertion in two or more newspapers within
such county, except in Howard County where the Supervisors
of Elections may publish in one newspaper, and in all the daily
papers published in said city which will publish the same at
the current rate for advertising, the nomination 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 newspaper shall be sufficient.
Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted to the
dissemination of general news; and the two newspapers selected
shall, if possible, represent the political parties which at the
last preceding election cast the largest and next largest number
of votes. The list of nominations published 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.

Approved April 9. 1924.