SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        857

by primary election or may be nominated by primary meeting may be
nominated by petition, as in this section provided. Nothing in this
subsection applies to candidates or nominations in Montgomery
County for election to the County Board of Education.

(b)    A certificate of nomination containing the name of a candi-
date for office shall be filed as specified in Section 4-3 of this Article
with such information as is required to be given in the certificate
provided for in Section 4-2 of this Article, with the additional state-
ment that the persons signing the same intend to vote for the person
nominated thereby. Said petition shall be signed by not less than
three percentum (3%) of the registered voters who are eligible to
vote for the office for which such nomination by petition is sought.
The number of registered voters shall be determined as of the January
1 next preceding the election at which such nomination is sought.
The petition for nomination shall be filed at least forty days prior to
the date set by law for the primary election.

(c)    The signatures need not all be appended to one paper, but if
the signatures are appended to more than one paper all such papers
must be fastened together and filed as one certificate. Each signer
shall append to his signature his residence, and the precinct or dis-
trict where he is registered as a voter, and immediately below the
signature of any such signer there shall be either printed or typed the
name of such signer. Every such paper shall be accompanied by an
affidavit or affidavits made before a justice of the peace, notary public
or other officer authorized to take oaths under the laws of this State,
by one or more persons known personally to the justice, notary public
or other officer, and so certified by him and signed by the affiants, to
the effect that the signers are known to such affiant or affiants to be
registered voters of the precinct as set forth in said petition, and that
the said affiant or affiants personally saw the signers, in regard to
whom he or they make oaths, sign such paper.

(d)    No person shall join in nominating more than one nominee
for each office to be filled; nor shall any person sign more than once
for the same nominee for an office.

(e)    If the adequacy of any certificate of nomination is questioned
in writing by any ten qualified voters, it shall be the duty of the
several boards in the jurisdiction in which the signers are registered
voters to verify the number of legitimate signatures; and if the total
required number of signatures is not properly appended to the peti-
tion, it shall be declared insufficient and the name of the proposed
candidate shall not be placed on the ballot.

7-2. Publication of nominating petitions.

Within thirty days after the filing of any nominating petition, the
Secretary of State, in cases of such petitions filed with him, shall
cause to be published at least once in a daily newspaper of general
circulation throughout the State, the names of all signers of any such
petition, together with an explanation of the nature of any such
petition to which said persons' names are affixed. Where such peti-
tions are filed with the boards, within thirty days after the filing of
such petition, it shall cause to be published once in a newspaper pub-
lished in the county, or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, the
names of all the signers of any such petition, together with an ex-
planation of the nature of the petition to which such persons' names