SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                      1223

federal government, and his spouse or children; (3) a civilian em-
ployee of the United States in all categories serving outside the
United States, whether or not subject to the civil service laws, and
whether or not paid from funds appropriated by Congress, and his
spouse or children; (4) any person serving with the American Red
Cross, the Society of Friends, and Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots,
and the United Service Organization who is attached to or serving
with the armed forces of the United States outside the United States,
and his spouse or children, shall be allowed to register and reregister
by casting his absentee ballot. For purposes of this subsection, a
voter shall be deemed and held to have resided continuously in the
precinct in which he resided at the time he first left to become
absent and engaged in such service for the entire period he has been
so absent and engaged.

4A-2.

(d) All persons shall file their certificates of candidacy in person
within the time specified by Section [4-4] 4A-3 of this article and
at the place specified in this section. In the event that any person
wishing to file a certificate of candidacy is unable to do so in person
by reason of illness, military service or temporary absence from the
State of Maryland, such person shall file an affidavit setting out fully
such facts as prevent him from personally filing his certificate of
candidacy and such affidavit must be filed with the certificate of
candidacy.

4A-3.

[(a)] Certificates of candidacy shall be received and filed in the
office of the appropriate board not later than nine p.m. on the Monday
which is ten weeks or seventy days before the day on which the
primary election should be held under the primary election law. If
this date should occur on a legal holiday, the certificates must be
received and filed not later than nine p.m. on the next regular busi-
ness day which is not a legal holiday.

[(b) In Baltimore City municipal elections, certificates of candi-
dacy shall be received and filed in the office of the board not later
than nine p.m. on the Wednesday which is ten weeks or seventy days
before the day on which the primary election shall be held under the
primary election law. If this date should occur on a holiday, the cer-
tificates must be received and filed not later than nine p.m. on the
next regular business day which is not a legal holiday.]

5-1.

Any political party which at the general election next preceding
any primary election to be held hereunder, shall have polled ten per
centum or more of the entire vote cast in the State shall nominate
(1) all its candidates for public office; [(2) all delegates to local and
State conventions;] and (2) [(3)] all members of the State and
local central committees in said political party by means of primary
elections conducted under the provisions of the subtitle. The several
boards shall not print on the official ballot to be voted at any general
or special election to be hereafter held the name or names of any
such candidate or candidates for election in Baltimore City or any of
the counties of the State of any of said parties who shall not be so
nominated and whose nomination shall not be certified to them or to
the Secretary of State as having been so nominated.