1368 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 781

filing said certificate as specified therein to the Supervisors of
Elections of Baltimore City and of every county in the State.
Said candidates for Governor, Comptroller, and Attorney
General, upon filing their respective certificates with the
Secretary of State as aforesaid shall each pay to him the
; sum of two hundred and seventy ($270) dollars, which in
turn shall be transmitted by him in the sums of ten ($10)
dollars each to the Supervisors of Elections of each county
of the State, and the sum of forty ($40) dollars thereof to
the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City; and the Board
of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City shall pay over
the amount so received to the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, and the Board of Supervisors of Elections for
each county shall pay over the amount so received to the
County Commissioners of each county, respectively; and all
the expenses of each of said primary elections in Baltimore
City shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more; and all the expenses of holding said primary elections
in each county, respectively, shall be paid by the County Com-
missioners of each county, respectively, precisely as the ex-
penses of the State, city and county elections are now paid
under existing laws; the said ballots shall be printed in num-
ber equal to 125% of the number of registered voters of the re-
spective political parties and the said ballots shall be dis-
tributed as follows: Ballots at least equal to the number of
voters of the respective political parties shall be sent to the
judges and clerks of election for use on primary election day,
, and the surplus ballots in the counties shall be retained by the
Supervisors of Elections or by an official designated by them
who shall deliver said surplus ballots to any judge of election
who shall make requisition therefor in writing, stating that
their first supply of ballots has been exhausted or that for any
cause additional ballots are needed and in Baltimore City the
said surplus ballots shall be delivered by the Supervisors of
Elections to the Police Commissioner, and they shall be re-
tained in his charge or that of an officer designated by him who
shall supply them to any judge of election for use on election
day as above provided.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
. effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 6, 1941.

CHAPTER 781.
(House Bill 454)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section
(3) of Section 194 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of