752 Laws of Maryland [Ch. 354
GREATER, of the registered voters who are eligible to vote for
the office for which such nomination by petition is sought. The num-
ber of registered voters shall be determined as of [January 1st pre-
ceding the] the commencement of the six month period before the
primary election for which the nomination is sought. Candidates
nominated by petition must pay the fee prescribed in Section 4A-6
of this article in the same manner as candidates for nomination at a
primary election, with the filing of the Certificate of Candidacy of
the candidate. Such fees shall be disposed of in the same manner as
provided in Section 4A-8 of this article.
8-1.
All nominations shall be attested to by a certificate of nomination.
(a) If the nomination is by means of a primary election, the cer-
tificate shall be signed and acknowledged by the persons whose duty
it may be, by party usage, to declare the result of such election in
the manner prescribed for a nomination by a convention, but no
party emblem or device of any kind shall be added to said certificate,
and if any such emblem or device should be added, it shall not be
printed upon the ballot by the State Administrative Board of Elec-
tion Laws or any of the boards.
(1) Whenever only one candidate of any such political party has
qualified to have his name placed upon the official primary election
ballot at the expiration of time allowed, for any public office or posi-
tion, a certificate of nomination or selection shall be issued to him
forthwith.
(2) If after the expiration of time allowed by this article for can-
didates for public office, delegates to conventions, members of State
or local central committees to qualify for the purpose of having their
names placed upon the official primary election ballot in any legis-
lative district of Baltimore City or in any county of the State, it
shall appear that only one set, or less than one set, of candidates of
any such political party have so qualified [then and in that event,]
certificates of nomination or selection shall be issued to the candi-
dates so qualified in a similar manner to that herein provided for
candidates nominated at primary elections.
[(b) The certificate of nomination for any primary meeting shall
contain the names of each person nominated, the address of his resi-
dence, the nature of his business and the name of the office for which
he has been nominated. It shall designate in not more than one word
the party or principle which the primary meeting represents. The
presiding officer and secretary of such primary meeting shall sign
the certificate giving their respective places of residence. They shall
acknowledge the certificate before an officer duly authorized to take
acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such acknowledg-
ment thereto.]
[(c)] (b) The certificate of nomination of any person nominated
by petition shall contain the name of the person so nominated, the
address of his residence, the nature of his business and the name
of the office to which he has been nominated.
9-2.
(a) Should any nominee die before election day or decline the
nomination, as in this subtitle provided, or should any certificate of
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