1362 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 780

nation for President by making the payment required and by
filing a certificate of candidacy specifying the party to which
he belongs and the national convention whose nomination for
President he seeks and in form and in substance like the cer-
tificate of candidacy required of candidates for the nomina-
tion for the office of Governor of Maryland by Section 235 of
this Article, except that such payment shall be made and such
certificate filed by said candidate or candidates for said office
of President not less than thirty days before the day of
the primary election for delegates to the State convention
which shall select and instruct, as hereinafter provided, the
delegates of each party to the national convention; and the
Secretary of State immediately on receipt of such certifi-
cate and payment shall certify the fact of the filing of each
certificate and the name and description of each person so
filing such certificate as specified therein to the Supervisors
of Election of Baltimore City and of every county in the
State and shall also apportion and transmit the said payment
to each of said Boards of Supervisors of Election as pre-
scribed in Section 235 with respect to the sums paid by candi-
dates for the nomination for the office of Governor of Mary-
land and said Boards of Supervisors for each county shall pay
over the amounts so received to the County Commissioners of
each county respectively, and the Board of Supervisors of
Baltimore City shall pay over the amount so received to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and all the ex-
penses of said primary election for candidates for President
of the United States and for delegates from the several
counties and legislative districts of Baltimore City to the
State convention of each political party subject to this sub-
title to select delegates to the national convention, respec-
tively, of such political parties, in Baltimore City, shall be
paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and all
the expenses of holding said primary elections in each county
shall be paid by the County Commissioners of each county,
precisely as the expenses of the State, city and county elec-
tions are now paid under existing laws.

And it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of
Elections in each county and of Baltimore City to cause to be
printed upon the official primary ballots of each of said polit-
ical parties in each and every county of the State, and in each
legislative district of Baltimore City at the annual primary
elections in each year in which a President of the United
States is to be elected the names of the candidates for Presi-
dent certified to them by the Secretary of the State as above
provided for, in manner and form and in all respects similar
to the way in which the names of candidates for the nomina-