1818 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 935

SEC. 17. The several judges and clerks shall be sworn in
before a Justice of the Peace or a Notary Public, and a cer-
tificate of every such oath signed by the person administering
the same shall be annexed to the poll books.

SEC. 18. The Board of Election Supervisors shall provide
a polling place or places within the city which in no instance
may be located in any building or part thereof occupied as a
saloon, hotel, poolroom, billiard hall, bowling alley or com-
municating with any of these by doors or hallways.

SEC. 19. The Board of Election Supervisors shall give at
least ten days' notice of all City elections by advertisement
in the local newspapers and by handbills posted in at least
six public places in the City. The Board shall make all neces-
sary rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Charter
for the conduct of elections over which they have charge. All
questions confronting the said Board shall be decided by at
least a majority vote of the Board. The Board of Election
Supervisors shall furnish the City Clerk the registry books
of the City for the purpose of registration, the custody of
which is to remain with the Clerk and the safe-keeping of
which he is responsible.

NOMINATION OF ELECTIVE OFFICERS.

SEC, 20. On the 2nd Monday in April of the year in which
a municipal election is to be held, the Board of Election Super-
visors shall sit between the hours of 9. 00 A. M. and 12. 00
Noon in the Chamber of the Mayor and City Council to receive
nomination papers of candidates for the several elective offices
to be filled at the next ensuing election, notice of the time and
place of which must be advertised in two newspapers, if so
many be published in said City, for at least two weeks prior
thereto. The manner of nominating candidates shall be as
follows: Each candidate for the office of Mayor or some one on
his behalf shall on or before the time of the sitting aforesaid
present to the Board of Election Supervisors his nomination
for said office in writing, signed by at least fifty qualified
voters of the City and no signature shall be counted if it shall
appear on the nomination papers of more than one candidate
for Mayor, and if it appears more than once on the same paper
it shall be counted but once. And in like manner every can-
didate for the office of City Councilman or for any other elec-
tive office hereafter to be created under this Charter, or some
one in his or their behalf, shall on or before the time of sitting
aforesaid, present to the Board of Election Supervisors in
writing his or their nomination for said office, signed by at
least twenty-five of the qualified voters of the City and no