ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 991

ment 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 Town of Rockville shall be deemed to have been nominated
by primary election 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 the Mayor
and Council of Rockville 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.

483-F. Each political party which shall have polled ten per
centum of the entire vote cast in the State at the next preceding
General Election may hold annually in the Town of Rockville
on the second Tuesday in April, at a place to be selected by the
Mayor and Council of Rockville, a primary election at which
any qualified and registered voter of the Town of Rockville
and of the party holding such primary election shall be en-
titled to vote. The said Mayor and Council of Rockville shall
give at least three weeks' notice by publication in some news-
paper printed in the Town of Rockville, of the time and place
of holding such primary election, and shall appoint, at least
one week prior to the time for holding such election, three
persons to act as judges of such election, which judges shall
be subject to the same provisions of law as are judges of town
elections. Ballots of the same form and arrangement as those
used in town elections shall be furnished by the Mayor and
Council of Rockville for each primary election and shall con-
tain the name of each person who shall file with the Clerk of
the Mayor and Council of Rockville at least ten days prior to
the time for holding the primary election by which he seeks
nomination, notice in waiting of his desire to be voted on at
such election, of the office for which he wishes to become a
candidate and the party with which he is affiliated.

The Mayor and Council shall have power to provide by
ordinance for the conducting, regulating or controlling of pri-
mary or town elections in any respect not covered by the spe-
cific provisions of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That three new sections
be and they are hereby added to said Article, to be known as