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States Congress and the State Senate, in equal amounts to the
board of each county within the respective congressional or sena-
torial districts and to the board in Baltimore City for any legislative
district wholly or partly therein.

(d)    The [Secretary of State] State Administrative Board of
Election Laws shall divide and transmit the fees received by [him]
it 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 elec-
tion 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] State Administrative Board of Election Laws
as having been so nominated.

6-1.

(b) The primary meeting shall be called by the party chairman,
if one has been selected, and if not, by the party's candidate for the
highest State-wide office in the preceding general election, upon
thirty days' notice by publication in newspapers of circulation
deemed adequate to reach all of the party's members, the notice to
be reprinted twenty, ten and five days prior to the primary meeting.
The notice will designate the time, place and purpose of the meeting
and the agenda to be followed. The meeting will be conducted ac-
cording to Roberts Revised Rules of Order, unless the party shall
have previously adopted and filed with the [Secretary of State]
State Administrative Board of Election Laws a constitution and
bylaws which comply substantially with Section 11-1 of this article.

7-1.

(e)    Any paper which is to form a part of a certificate of candi-
dacy shall be submitted to the Board for the county or the City of
Baltimore in which the signers on the paper are alleged to reside.
The Board shall give to anyone submitting any such paper or papers
a signed receipt stating that the paper or papers are on file with the
Board. It shall be the duty of the several boards in the jurisdiction
in which the signers are alleged to be registered voters to verify the
number of legitimate signatures of persons who are registered voters.
On any petition, including an associated or included set of petitions,
submitted to the Board, any question concerning the invalidity of
the signature of any person on the petition affects that signature