MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                      1317

section. In any county where the salary of the office for which nomi-
nation is sought is three hundred dollars ($300) or less, such payment
shall be ten dollars ($10). All such payments shall be made to the
person with whom the certificate is filed and shall accompany the
certificate. At a primary election each candidate as a delegate to
[the State convention] a national convention or as a member of the
State central committee, executive committee of any party or other
party committee, shall pay the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) upon
filing his certificate with the board or Secretary of the State.

(b) Candidates for President of the United States, Governor,
the United States Senate, Comptroller, and Attorney General, upon
filing their respective certificates with the Secretary of State, shall
each pay to him the sum of two hundred and ninety dollars ($290).
NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES QUALIFYING
UNDER SECTION 12-2(a)(l).

4A-8.

(d) The Secretary of State shall divide and transmit the fees
received by him from candidates for election as delegates to a
national convention in equal amounts to the board of each county
within the respective congressional district and to the board in
Baltimore City for any congressional district wholly or partly
therein.

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; and (2) 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;
and shall elect the appropriate number of delegates to a national
convention as provided in this article. 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.

5-2.

(a) The primary elections by the political parties FOR CAN-
DIDATES FOR STATE OFFICES AND STATE CENTRAL COM-
MITTEE; shall be held throughout this State on the [second Tuesday
after the first Monday in September]. second Tuesday after the first
Monday in June. THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS BY THE POLIT-
ICAL PARTIES IN EACH YEAR IN WHICH A NATIONAL
CONVENTION IS HELD FOR THE NOMINATION OF CANDI-
DATES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT SHALL BE
HELD THROUGHOUT THIS STATE ON THE THIRD TUES-
DAY IN MAY.