122                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                   [CH. 74

desiring to have his name placed upon the official ballot at the
ensuing election shall at such time present to said registration
officers a petition setting forth his name, residence, age,
whether he is a citizen of the United States and the length of
time he has lived in the Town of Barton, and the office which
he seeks, and such petition shall be signed by at least twenty
qualified voters of said Town of Barton. No signature shall be
counted if it shall be upon more than one nomination paper of
a candidate for Mayor or if upon more than four nomination
papers of candidates for Commissioners. Immediately after
the sitting of said registration officers for the purpose of re-
ceiving petitions of nominations as aforesaid, the said regis-
tration officers shall report to the Mayor and Commissioners
of Barton the name or names of those so nominated and the
said Mayor and Commissioners shall forthwith make up the
official ballot from the names of qualified voters so submitted
to them and no name shall be placed upon said ballot by the
said Mayor and Commissioners except such as shall be certi-
fied to them as having been properly nominated by said
registration officials as above set out and no ballots shall be
accepted or counted by the judges of election except those in
manner and form as herein prescribed for the official ballot,
and the said Mayor and Commissioners shall give at least
ten days' public notice of all such nominations so certified
to them by advertisement by way of notices on handbills,
posted in not less than ten public places within the corpo-
rate limits of the said Town of Barton. There shall be a
square at the right of the name of each candidate and a blank
space at the end of the list of candidates for each office with
a square opposite said blank space, so that any voter may write
therein the name of any person for whom he may wish to vote
for any office, whose name may not appear upon the official
ballot"

The official ballot shall be printed and supplied to the judges
. of election by the Mayor and Commissioners of Barton and
shall be printed as nearly as practicable in accordance with
the following form; the date and names to be changed, but the
names of all candidates for their particular office to be ar-
ranged alphabetically under the proper designation of the office
for which he is a candidate. There shall be a square at the
right of the name of each candidate.