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shall have power to make all necessary rules and regula-
tions, not inconsistent with this Article, with reference to
the registration of voters and the conduct of elections and
shall have charge of and make provision for all elections,
general, special, local, municipal, State and county and for
all others of every description to be held in such county or
city, or any part thereof at any time; provided, however,
that in any incorporated city or town in this State (other
than the City of Baltimore) in which the municipal or char-
ter elections are now regulated by the Public Local Laws of
the State, the conduct of such municipal or charter elections
shall continue to be so regulated as heretofore and such Pub-
lic Local Laws shall continue in force therein. Unless other-
wise expressly provided in this Article, all questions arising
with reference to such rules and regulations as to the regis-
tration of voters and the conduct of elections shall be de-
cided by a majority of the Board.

46. Within not less than two or more than ten days before
an election to fill any public office, the Supervisors of Elec-
tions of each county and in the City of Baltimore shall cause
to be published by one insertion in two and, in Dorchester
County, three or more newspapers within such county, and
in all the daily papers published 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 coun-
ty there be but one newspaper published, publication in such
one newspaper shall be sufficient. Such publication shall be
made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general
news; and the two newspapers 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 Elec-
tions shall be arranged, so far as practicable, in the order
and form in which they are to be printed upon the ballots.

SEC. 2. And be It further enacted,, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 22, 1949.

CHAPTER 347

(House Bill 340)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-sec-
tion (b) of Section 454 of Article 10 of the Code of Public