The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-23
SUPPLEMENT-.
Public General Laws,
Passed by the General Assembly
of Maryland, at the January
Session, 1890.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER 53S.


PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER 53S.
AN ACT entitled an act to repeal and re.en-
act with amendments section fifty-four, OF
article thirty-three, of the Code of Public
General Laws, title elections" and to add
new sections thereto under the designations
of sections one hundred and twenty-eight,
one hundred and twenty nine. one hundred
and thirty, one hundred and thirty one, one
hundred and thirty-two, one hundred and
thirty-three, one hundred and thirty-four,
one hundred and thirty-fve, one hundred
and thirty.six, one hundred and thirty
seven, one hundred and thirty-eight, one
hundred and thirty-nine, one hundred and
forty, one hundred and forty-one, one hum
dred and forty.two, one hundred and
forty-three, one hundred and 1orty-
four, one hundred and forty-tve, one
hundred and forty-six, one hundred
and forty.seyen, one hundred and forty
eight, one hundred and forty.nine, one hum
dred and fifty, one hundred and fifty-one,
one hundred and fifty-two, one hundred and
fifty-three, one hundred and fifty.four, one
hundred and fifty-fve, one hundred and
fifty-six, one hundred and ffty-seven, one
hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred and
fifty-nine, one hundred and sixty, one hun.
dred and sixty-one, one hundred and sixty
two, one hundred and sixty three, one hum
dred and sixty-fOur, one hundred and sixty
five and onehundred and sixty.six.
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted By the General As
sens6ly Of Maryland, That section ffty.four,
of article thirty-three, of the Code of Public
Laws, title Elections" be repealed and re-
enacted SO as to read as follows:
g. Every voter shall deliver to the judges
of election in the district or precinct in which
he offers to vote, one official ballot to be fur
nished to him in the manner stated in section
one hundred and fifty-fou of this article, and
the ballot 80 delivered to and received by the
judges of election shall be deposited in the
ballot-box until the polls be closed, subject to
the limitation hereinafter stated; one &C.
credited representative or challenger of each
and every political party whose candidates
are voted for at each election, to be designated
in writing by such candidates, and in case of
his necessary absence, q substitute similarly
selected shall be entitled to be admitted into
and remain in the polling room from the OPEN
ing until the close of the election, and until
the vote has been counted and the result as
certained, and a refusal to permit any such
representative shall lbe misdemeanor punish
able by q fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding
six months, or by both fine and imprisonm ent,
in the discretion of the court but no such
accredited representative or challenger can
demand admittance for any political party
which casts less than one.fifth of all the votes
in the State at the last preceding general
election the position to be held by any chal-
lengers or representatives shall be outside OF
the guard rail, the ballot box shall not be more
than six feet from said rail, inside the same;
1t shall be unlawful for said representative to
Inquire or ascertain for what candidate or
Of tor MAY
has voted, or to confer in the polling-room
with any voter or to aid or assist him in the
preparation of his ballot; other challengers
may at the instance of candidates be admitted
In the discretion of the judges of election.
SEC. g. Be 1t enacted, That the following
sections numbered from one hundred and
twenty-eight to one hundred and sixty six in
elusive, be and the same are hereby enacted
as part of the Code of Public General Laws,
and added to said article thirty-three.
1873. Hereafter all ballots to be used and
cast in any elections to be held in this State
under the constitution and laws thereof, and
for representatives in the congress of the
United States, and for electors for president
and vice president of the United States, and
Ia all the elections in the several counties and
districts and precincts thereof, and in the city
of Baltimore and the several districts, wards
and precincts thereof, and in the cities of An
napOlis, Frederick. Cumberland and Hagers
town, and the several wards or precincts
thereof, shall be printed and distributed at
the public expense; the word election in this
section shall embrace all votes upon questions
submitted to the vote of the people, but not
primary elections.
1879. Any convention as hereinafter de-
fined, held for the purpose OF making nomi-
nations to public Office, and also registered
voters to the number hereinafter specified,
dofn for 10 IN
be filled by election within the State, or any
part thereof; convention within the mean
ing of this act is an organized assemblage of
delegates representing political party which
at the last general election before the holding
of such convention, pOlled at least one per
cent. Of the entire vote cast In the State,
county, ward or other division for which the
nomination ia made; nominations may also
be made by means of primary elections, with
out the Intervention Of any convention by
any party which polled said proportion ofthe
entire vote of the State at the last preceding
general election.
100. All nominations made by any such
convention, or by means of any primary cleo
ton shall be certified as follows: there shall
be in either case certificate In writing, in
which shall be stated the name of each person
nominated, his residence and the office for
which be ia nominated, and the name of the
party by which he has been nominated !; If the
nomination be by convention, the certificate
shall be signed by the presiding officer and
secretary Of the convention, and their sigma
lures thereto shall be acknowledged by them
before some officer competent to take &C.
Acknowledgements of deeds if the nomination
be by means of primary election as stated
in 9 foregoing section, the certificate may be
signed by the judge or judges ofsuch election,
{ or ifthere be = number of polling-places at
such primary, then by the person or persons
whose duty it may be by the party usage, to
receive the return and declare the result, or
by the presiding judge at each of such polling
places, and the signature of each signer shall
be acknowledged by him as hereinbefore
stated all such certificates shall be known as
certificates of nomination q party emblem or
device may be added to the certificate; pro-
vided, It shall be referred to and identified in
said acknowledgment; it may consist of one
object, or of several objects in combination,
and when printed on its proper ballot shall
not occupy more than two and one-halfinches
in height and two inches in breadth.
131. A candidate for public office may be
nominated otherwise than by a convention
or primary election in the manner following:
q nomination paper containing the name Of
the candidate nominated, his residence, and
and the office for which he is nominated, shall
be signed by registered voters residing within
the county, cities of Baltimore, Annapolis,
Frederick, Cumberland, and Hagerstown,
ward or political division, as the case may be,
for which candidates are to be presented as
follows: 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 the entire cities of Baltimore,
Annapolis, Frederick, Cumberland and Hs-
perstown and not less than two hundred for
nominations for all other elections; and pro-
yided also, that the said signatures need not
all be appended to one paper when executed
as above prescribed, may be filed as provided
for in section one hundred and thirty-two of
this article, with the same effect as a certif-
cate of nomination made by party conven-