1450 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 581

didates shall be printed directly beneath each other in a ver-
tical line. A constitutional amendment, or any question to
be submitted to the popular vote, shall be printed at the bottom
of the ballot.

57. If at any election there be a constitutional question, or
any other question to be submitted to the popular vote, the
said question shall be placed upon said ballot in the form fol-
lowing: "For Constitutional Amendment, " "Against Consti-
tutional Amendment, " "For Proposition, " "Against Proposi-
tion, " and said respective questions shall be placed at the bot-
tom of the ballot as hereinbefore mentioned, so that the voter
may clearly indicate, in the way hereinbefore pointed out,
whether he shall wish to cast his ballot for or against the Con-
stitutional Amendment or Proposition or Propositions sub-
mitted.

58. All said ballots in all elections in and throughout the
State of Maryland, including all the counties thereof and Bal-
timore City, shall be printed in the same uniform type upon
plain white printing paper of ordinary book weight in black
ink, and the names of all candidates and their several party
designations shall be printed upon all ballots which may be
used in any and all elections in every county of the State and
in the City of Baltimore, in the following type, to wit: In
clear, plain bold and legible roman capitals, twelve-point, gen-
erally known as pica type, one-eighth of an inch high or in
depth, and the printing of said names of said candidates and
of their respective party designations, shall also be uniform in
style and appearance throughout the ballot; and it shall be the
duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections for Baltimore
City and of the Board of Supervisors of Elections for each
county, to cause all ballots to be used by the voters of said city,
and the several counties, to be printed in manner and form as
aforesaid: On the back and outside of all ballots shall be
printed the words "Official Ballot For, " followed by the
designation of the county, congressional, legislative, coun-
cilmanic or other district (but not the number or name
of the precinct), for which it is prepared, the date of the
election and a facsimile of the signature of the President of
the Board of Supervisors of Elections, by whom the ballots
have been prepared. Said ballot, shall be printed on the same
leaf, with a detachable stub or coupon one inch high and three
inches wide, above the upper right-hand comer of the ballot,
and binding on the upper edge thereof, but separted therefrom