1188 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 597

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 candi-
date, 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 preced-
ing 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 Salisbury and of the party holding such primary elec-
tion shall be entitled to vote. The said City Committee shall
give at least three weeks' notice by publication in some news-
paper 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 arrangement as those used in City Elections
shall be furnished by the Mayor and Council of Salisbury for
each primary election and shall contain the name of each per-
son who shall file with the Clerk of the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury at least ten days prior to the time for holding the
primary election by which he seeks nomination, notice in
writing 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.

(e) Every candidate for the office of Mayor at the time of
filing his notice or petition as above set forth shall pay to the
Clerk of Salisbury the sum of Twenty Dollars. Every
candidate for the office as Councilman at the time of filing his
notice or petition, as above set forth, shall pay to the Clerk
of Salisbury the sum of Ten Dollars and every candidate for
the office of Clerk to the Council, Collector of City Taxes and
Treasurer at the time of filing his notice or petition, as above
set forth, shall pay to the Clerk of Salisbury the sum of Twen-
ty-Five Dollars, as filing fee.

(f) The Mayor and Council shall have power to provide by
ordinance for the conducting, regulating and controlling of
Primary or City Elections in any respect not covered by the
specific provisions of this Act.