name and address of all those to whom such notice was mailed, and when mailed. No new names shall be added at such meeting. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 34. At such meeting both of the registers shall again be produced, and said board shall hear every person that appears before them to whom notice was sent, to show cause why his name should not be erased from said register, in the same manner provided for in case of the general registration; and if a majority of said board shall decide that such person is not a qualified voter, his name shall be erased from the registers. Evidence on either side may be heard, and all witnesses or parties shall be sworn. If qulaified voters so noted as dead or removed are not dead or have not removed, their names shall stand, but if any person so notified does not appear at such session and show cause why his name should not be erased, the board shall during the last hour of such session, cause his name to be erased and marked as disqualified, dead or removed, as the case may be, unless a majority of the board are satisfied, of their own knowledge, or upon competent evidence, that such person is entitled to have his name retained on the registry, and under the head of "Remarks," opposite each name erased, shall be stated the facts as to such erasure, the grounds and date of making the same and the evidence on which it was made. The two registers shall then be compared and made to agree, where there is any difference, and such revision of the registry by said Board of Registry shall then be considered closed, and no other name can be added by said board and a certificate of the number of qualified voters shall then be made and signed on the registers. The registers shall, by noon of the second day thereafter, be returned to the Supervisors of Elections, with the alphabetical list, as required in section 23. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 35. The Board of Superviosrs of Elections shall, immediately, upon the return of said registers, cause a suitable number of copies of the alphabetical list of names registered or erased in each precinct to be printed and written three days after such return of the lists, and cause copies thereof to be posted and to be given to the judges or clerks, and to be sold, as before provided, in cases of general registration. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 36. Any person who feels aggrieved for any of the causes mentioned in section 24 of this Article, which may have arisen in the course of such revision, may file a petition as provided for the first general registration, and thereupon the same proceedings shall be had, and the same forms and methods shall be used as in case of similar petitions under the said section 24. 37. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. The place of any officer of registration who may be absent on any day of registration or revision shall be filled by the other members of the board then present, always selecting a person of the same political party as the absent person, and the same oath shall be administered by one of the members of said board then present to such temporary officer of registration, as provided in the case of the regular officers of regis tration; whenever the regular officer shall return or be present the temporary incumbent shall vacate his office. The appointment and swearing in of all such substitutes, and the reasons therefor, and the time when such substitutes began and ceased to serve as officers of registration shall be noted by the board in the registers. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 38. There shall not be a previous revision of the registry before any special election, but at such election the registry books as last prepared or revised shall be used. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, however, and every second year thereafter, the books of registration for the city of Annapolis shall be open by the several boards of registry for the wards or precincts thereof on the second Monday and the following Tuesday in those years, for the purpose of registering new voters and for the correction of said books of registration prior to the biennial municipal elections in said city in the month of July, and of those sittings of the said boards of registry, ten days' previous public notice shall be given by the Board of Supervisors of Anne Arundel County, directed by section 13. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 39. The Board of Supervisors of Elections, the Board of Registry and each member of said Board of Registry shall, without fee or reward, whenever the said registers, or any one of them, in its or his custody, permit the same to be freely inspected by any one wishing so to do, such inspection shall be made in the presence of a member or members of the said Board of Supervisors or one of their clerks, or of the said Board of Registry, or of those members of the Board of Registry in whose custody the said registers may be, and not otherwise. Said Board of Supervisors and said Board of Registry shall, upon application, furnish a copy of any entry in said register, and said copy, under their hands, shall be evidence in any court or before any officer, of the matters therein contained. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 40. Any convention or primary meeting as hereinafter defined, held for the purpose of making nominations to public office, and also voters to the number hereinafter specified, may nominate candidates for public office to be filled by election within the State. A convention or primary meeting, within-the meaning of this Article, is an organized assemblage of delegates or voters representing a political party or principle which at the last election before holding of such convention polled at least one per cent. of the entire vote cast in the State, county or other division or district for which the nomination is made. Nominations may be made by means of primary elections without the intervention of any convention, by any party which, at the last preceding election, polled the requisite proportion of votes as herein before specified. CHAPTER 2, ACTS OF 1901. 41. All nominations made by such convention or primary meetings shall be certified as follows: The certificate of nomination shall be in writing shall contain the name of each person nominated, his residence, his business, his address and the office for which he is nominated, and shall designate, in not more than five words, the party or principle which such convention or primary meeting represents. It shall be signed by the presiding officer and secretary of such convention, who shall add to their signatures their respective places of residence, their business and business address, and acknowledge the same before an officer duly authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of such acknowledgment thereto. If the nomination is by means of a primary election, the certificate 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 Secretary of State or any of the Board of Supervisors of Elections. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 42. A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise than by a convention or primary election in the manner following: A certificate of nomination containing the names of a candidate for the office to be filled, with such information as is required to be given in certificates provided for in section 41 of this Article, with the additional statement that the persons signing the same intend to vote for the person to be nominated thereby, shall be signed by voters in numbers as follows, residing in the political division in and for which the officer is to be elected that is to say: The number of signatures so required shall not be less than five hundred when the nomination is for an office to be filled by an election participated in by the voters of the entire State, and not less than three hundred when the nomination is for an office to be filled by an election to be participated in by the voters of an entire Congressional district or of the entire cities of Baltimore, Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland or Hagerstown, and not less than two hundred for nominations for all other elections; and provided also, that the said 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, occupation and place of business, and every such paper shall be accompanied by an affidavit or affidavits made before a justice of the peace by one or more persons known personally to the justice and so certified by him and signed by the affiant or affiants, to the effect that the signers are known to such affiant or affiants to be registered voters of the district or precinct in which they respectively reside, and that the said affiant or affiants personally saw the signers in regard to whom he or they make oath sign such paper, and any wilfully false statement in such affidavit or affidavits or affirmation shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall subject the person making the same to the fines and penalties prescribed by the law of this State for the crime of perjury. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 43. Certificates of nominations shall be filed with the Secretary of State for the nomination of members of Congress or of candidates for offices to be filled by the voters of the entire State or of any division of a greater extent than one county. For all other nominations to public offices certificates of nomination shall be filed with the Supervisors of Elections of the respective counties or of Baltimore city as the case may be, wherein the offices are to be filled by the voters. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 44. No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than one nominee for each office to be filled. No person shall join in nominating more than one nominee for each office to be filled, and no person shall accept a nomination to more than one office. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 45. The Secretary of State and the several boards of supervisors of elections shall cause to be preserved in their respective offices, for two years, all certificates of nominations filed with them under the provisions of this Article. All such certificates shall be open to public inspection. CHAPTER 133, ACTS OF 1902. 46. Except in cases provided for by section 50 and cases of special election, to fill vacancies in office caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, such certificates of nomination shall be filed respectively with the Secretary of State not less than twenty-five days, and with the Board of Supervisors of Elections not less than fifteen days before the day of election. CHAPTER 133, ACTS OF 1902. 47. Not less than eighteen days before an election to fill any public office, the Secretary of State shall certify to the Supervisors of Elections of each county, within which any of the voters may, by law, vote for candidates for such office, the name and description of each person nominated for such office, as specified in the certificates of nomination filed with the Secretary of State, and shall certify the same to the Supervisors of Election of Baltimore city, if any of the voters of said city, may, by law, vote for candidates for such office. CHAPTER 133, ACTS OF 1902. (The following section 48 applies to the following counties: Baltimore City, Baltimore, Wicomico, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, Cecil, Montgomery, Howard, Caroline, Harford, Frederick, and Garrett counties.) 48. At least eight days before an election to fill any public office the Supervisors of Elections of each county and of the city of Baltimore shall cause to be published in two or more newspapers within such county, and in all the daily papers published in said city which will publish the same at the current rates for advertising, the nominations to office which have then been filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this Article. If in any county there be but one newspaper published, publication in such one newspaper shall be sufficient. They shall make not less than two such publications in each of such newspapers before the day of election, and one of such publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last day upon which said newspaper is issued before the day of election. Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general news, and the two newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the political parties which at the last preceding election cast the largest and next largest number of votes. The list of nominations published by the Supervisors of Elections shall be arranged, so far as practicable, in the order and form in which they are to be printed upon the ballots. CHAPTER 614, ACTS OF 1908. (NOTE. The following section 48 applies to the following counties: Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Kent, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot, and Worcester.) 48. At least eight days before an election to fill any public office, the Supervisors of Elections of each county and of the city of Baltimore, shall cause to be published in two or more newspapers within such county and in all the daily papers published in said city which will publish the same at the current rate for advertising the nominations to office which have been filed with or certified to them under the provisions of this Article, if in any county there be but one newspaper published, publication in such one newspaper shall be sufficient, they shall make not less than two such publications in each of such newspapers before the day of election, and one of such publications in each newspaper shall be upon the last day upon which said newspaper is issued before the day of election. Such publication shall be made in newspapers devoted to the dissemination of general news, and the two newspapers selected shall, if possible, represent the political parties which at the last preceding election cast the largest and next largest number of votes. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 49. Whenever any person nominated for public office, as in this Article provided, shall, at least ten days before election, in a writing signed by him and acknowledged before a justice of the peace, or if he be out of the State at the time, before a notary public, notify the officer with whom the certificate nominating him is, by this Article, required to be filed, that he declines such nomination, such nomination shall be void, and the name of any person so declining shall not be printed upon the ballots. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 50. Should any person so nominated die before election day or decline the nomination, as in this Article provided, or should any certificate of nomination be or become insufficient or inoperative from any cause, 2 |