HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1485

40. Not less than eighteen days before an election to fill
any public office, the Secretary of State shall certify to the
Supervisors of Elections of each county within which any of
the voters may, by law, vote for candidates for such office,
the name and description of each person nominated for such
office, as specified in the certificates of nominations filed with
the Secretary of State, and shall certify the same to the
Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City, if any of the
voters of said city may by law vote for candidates for such
office.

41. Within not less than two nor more than ten days be-
fore an election to fill any public office, the Supervisors of
Elections of each county and in the City of Baltimore shall
cause to be published by one insertion in two or more news-
papers within such county, and in all the daily papers pub-
lished in said city which will publish the same at the current
rate of advertising, the nominations to office which have
been filed with or certified to them under the provisions of
this Article. If in any county there be but one newspaper
published, publication in such one newspaper shall be suffici-
ent. Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted
to the dissemination of general news; and the two news-
papers selected shall, if possible, represent the political parties
which at the last preceding election cast the largest and next
largest number of votes. The list of nominations published
by the Supervisors of Elections shall be arranged, so far as
practicable, in the order and form in which they are to be
printed upon the ballots.

42. Whenever any person nominated for public office as in
this Article provided, shall at least thirty days before election,
in a writing signed by him or her and acknowledged before a
Justice of the Peace or a Notary Public, notify the officer with
whom the certificate nominating him is by this Article required
to be filed, that he or she declines such nomination, such nomi-
nation shall be void, and the name of any person so withdraw-
ing shall not be printed upon the ballots; provided, however,
that if the interval between the date of nomination and the
date of election shall be less than forty days, such certificate
need not be filed until at least twenty days before election.
Whenever any person who has filed a certificate of candidacy
for nomination in any primary election shall at least thirty
days before the day of such primary election, in a writing
signed by him or her, and acknowledged before a Justice of the
Peace or Notary Public, notify the officer or Board with whom
the certificate of candidacy is by this Article required to be
filed, that he or she desires to withdraw as a candidate for such