ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 27

qualified voter therein; that I am a candidate for the Office of
.................... to be voted upon at the town election

to be held on the fourth Monday of April, 19......., and I

hereby request my name be printed upon the official ballot at
said election as a candidate for said office.

(Signed)......................

Subscribed and sworn to before me this........ day of

...................... 19.......

Notary Public.
To the Clerk of Federalsburg:

We, the undersigned, citizens of the town of Federalsburg,
Caroline County, Maryland, and being duly qualified voters of
said town, do hereby certify, that we do nominate..........

......................... who has been a resident of the

town of Federalsburg, Caroline County, for more than one
year, for the office of.........................

We do further certify that we and each of us shall vote for
the said person nominated hereby.

Witness our hands this...... day of.........., 19....

(Signatures of ten petitioning voters. )

And each candidate shall at the same time deposit with the
Clerk of Federalsburg the sum of Five Dollars ($5. 00), which
sum shall be paid to the Mayor and Council for the purpose of
defraying in whole or in part the expenses of said election.
And immediately upon the expiration of the time of filing of
petitions by the respective candidates the Clerk of Federals-
burg shall cause to be published in one or more newspapers
published in Caroline County or posted in three conspicuous
places in the town of Federalsburg, the names of all the candi-
dates as they are to appear upon the official ballot, and the said
Clerk shall thereupon cause the official ballots to be printed
on plain white paper of uniform size to be delivered to the
Judges of Election and to no other person, and on such ballots
shall appear the name or names of all the candidates for Mayor
arranged alphabetically and immediately following the words
"For Mayor, " which shall be printed on said ballot, and pre-
ceding the names of the candidates shall be plainly printed in
black ink a direction to the voters: "Vote for one by making a
cross (X) mark in that square which is opposite the name of
the candidate to be voted for, " and a black line shall be printed
immediately under the name of each candidate extending to a
square opposite the name of the candidate and immediately