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suitable place or places for voting in each precinct, suitable
ballot boxes and ballots in the form and arranged as provided
in Section 55 of Article 33, of the Annotated Code, 1912, of
Maryland, except that such ballots shall contain the name of
every candidate whose nomination has been certified to and
filed according to the provisions of this Act.

(b) No person shall be a candidate for any public office in
the government of the City of Salisbury unless such person shall
be nominated either by a primary election held as hereinafter
provided or by petition in conformity with the requirements
herein.

(c) A candidate for a public office in the government of
the City of Salisbury shall be deemed to have been nominated
by petition when he, or someone in his behalf, shall file, at
least ten days prior to the time for holding the election at which
he desires to be voted on, with the Clerk of Salisbury a certifi-
cate signed by at least two hundred qualified voters containing
the name of the candidate, a statement of his political affiliation,
a statement of the office which he seeks, and a statement that
the persons signing the same intend to vote for the person named
therein for the office named therein. A candidate for a public
office in the government of the City of Salisbury shall be deemed
to have been nominated by primary election when he, or some-
one in his behalf, shall file, at least ten days prior to the time
for holding the election at which he desires to be voted on, with
the Clerk of Salisbury a certificate signed by the judges or a
majority of the judges of the primary election, containing the
name of the candidate, a statement of his political affiliation
and a statement of the office which he seeks, and that he has been
duly elected a candidate for said office.

(d) Each political party which shall have polled ten per
centum of the entire vote cast in the State at the next pre-
ceding General Election may hold annually in the City of Salis-
bury on the second Tuesday in April, at a place or places to be
selected by the City Committee of such party, a primary election
at which any qualified and registered voter of the City of Salis-
bury and of the party holding such primary election shall be
entitled to vote. The said City Committee shall give at least
three weeks' notice by publication in some newspaper printed
in the City of Salisbury, of the time and place or places of
holding such primary election, and shall appoint at least one
week prior to the time for holding such election six persons
for each voting place to act as judges of such election,
which judges shall be subject to the same provisions of law as
are judges of City Elections. The polls shall be open from
8 o'clock A. M. to 6 o'clock P. M. Ballots of the same form and