1482 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

nomination is made. Nominations by parties polling ten per
cent, or more of the entire vote cast in any such election shall
be made by means of primary elections as hereinafter in this
Article provided.

33. All nominations made by such conventions or primary
meetings shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nomi-
nation shall be in writing, shall contain the name of each
person nominated, his residence, his business, his address and
the office for which he is nominated, and shall designate, in not
more than one word, the party or principle which such con-
vention or primary meeting represents. It shall be signed
by the presiding officer and secretary of such convention, who
shall add to their signatures their respective places of resi-
dence, their business and business address, and acknowledge
the same before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledg-
ments, who shall append a certificate of such acknowledgment
thereto. If the nomination is by means of a primary election,
the certificate shall be signed and, acknowledged by the persons
whose duty it may be, by party usage, to declare the result of
such election in the manner prescribed for a nomination by
a convention, but no party emblem or device of any kind
shall be added to said certificate; and if any such emblem or
device should be added, it shall not be printed upon the ballot
by the Secretary of State or any of the Boards of Super-
visors of Elections.

34. A candidate for any public office may be nominated
otherwise than by a convention or primary election in the
following manner: A certificate of nomination containing the
names of a candidate for office to be filled with such informa-
tion as is required to be given in the certificate provided for
in Section 33 of this Article, with the additional statement
that the persons signing the same intend to vote for the per-
son nominated thereby, shall be signed by voters in numbers
as follows residing in the political division in and for which
the officer is to be elected—that is to say: The number of signa-
tures so required shall not be less than two thousand when
the nomination is for an office to be filled by an election par-
ticipated in by the voters of the entire State, and not less than
fifteen hundred when the nomination is for an office to be filled
by an election to be participated in by the voters of an entire
Congressional district or of the City of Baltimore, and not less
than seven hundred and fifty when the nomination is for an
office to be filled by an election to be participated in by the
voters of the entire cities of Annapolis, Frederick, Cumber-
land, or Hagerstown, and not less than five hundred for nomi-
nations for all other elections; and provided also, that the said