1506 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

named for the same office on two or more certificates of nomi-
nation, his name shall be printed on the ballot but once, and to
the right of the name of said candidate shall be added the name
of one of the parties which such candidate represents, as ap-
pearing in said certificate of nomination, and the Board of
Supervisors of Elections shall cause to be printed to the right
of the name of such candidate whatever one of said party
names, so appearing in said certificate of nomination, the said
candidate shall, in writing, designate to said Board of Super-
visors as the party name which he desires to be added to the
right of his name on the ballot; provided, however, that such
party name shall consist of one word only. When the name of
a political party is given in connection with the name of a
candidate nominated as provided in Section 34 of this Article,
it shall be stated on the ballot to the right of the name of the
candidate; but if there shall have been any nomination for the
same office by a convention or primary election claiming the
same party name, duly certified as hereinbefore provided, there
shall be then printed to the right of the name of the candidate
so nominated in accordance with Section 34, only the word "In-
dependent" and none other. If the same party name shall be
claimed on behalf of nominations made 'by more than one con-
vention or primary election and duly certified as aforesaid, the
officers by whom the ballot is to be prepared, or a majority of
them, shall determine which nominees are justly entitled to the
party name, and to the right of the other nominees there shall
be printed upon the ballot only the word "Independent" and
none other. There shall be left at the right of the surnames of
the candidate for President and Vice-President, so formed as
to include both names, a sufficient clear square in which each
voter may designate by a cross (X) his choice for electors, and
a cross (X) placed by the voter in the square opposite the
names of the candidates of a party for President and Vice-Presi-
dent shall be deemed and counted as a vote for each of the
Presidential Electors of said party filed according to the pro-
visions of this Article. All candidates for office shall as far as
possible be placed in one column, but when the names to be
printed upon the ticket are over thirty-six, then another column
shall be added in which names shall be printed, and when two
or more columns are used the same number of names shall, so
far as possible, be printed in each column. And the initial
letters of the given or Christian name of the several candidates
in each column shall be printed directly beneath each other in
a vertical line, and the initial letter of the respective party
designations of said several candidates shall be printed directly
beneath each other in a vertical line. A constitutional amend-
ment, or any question to be submitted to the popular vote, shall