ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1455

the candidate; but if there shall have been any nomination
for the same office by a convention or primary election claiming
the same party name, duly certified as hereinbefore provided,
there shall be then printed to the right of the name of the
candidate so nominated in accordance with Section 42, except
Presidential Electors, only the word "Independent" and none
other. If the same party name shall be claimed on behalf of
nominations made by more than one convention or primary
election and duly certified as aforesaid, the officers by whom
the ballot is to be prepared, or a majority of them, shall deter-
mine which nominees are justly entitled to the party name,
and to the right of the other nominees there shall be printed
upon the ballot only the word "Independent" and none other.
The names of the candidates for the office of Electors of
President and Vice-President of the United States shall be ar-
ranged in groups, as presented 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 Supervisors 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 districts, 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 numbers of the
Congressional district in which they reside, shall follow in
numerical order. The surnames 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 candi-
dates 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, so 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, and the initial
letter of the respective party designations of said several can-