Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-05-10
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, 1912.

PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, 1912.
ascertainment and certidcation shall
not embrace or contain any reference
to any second or other relative pre-
ferential choice, but shall be made
SO as TO conform and harmonic with
the provisions of this subtitle re-
, specting the election and instruction
OF delegates from said several coun-
ties and legislative districts to the
State convention for the selection of
delegates to the national convention
In the event that no person shall
file a certificate Of candidacy and
make the payment above required as
a candidate for the nomination for
president in said primary election of
any Of said parties, then the State
convention Of such party may in
struct the delegates sent by it to the
national convention for such candi-
date for president as it may see at,
or may send an uninstructed delega-
ton to the national convention Of
such party.
The Board of Supervisors OF Elec-
tons in each county Of the State and
Of Baltimore City shall cause to be
printed upon the presidential primary
election ballots in each of said coun-
ties and in each legislative district OF
Baltimore City, and beneath the name
or group Of names of any qualified
candidate or candidates for the nomi-
nation Of president of any of such
parties and distinctly separated by
Appropriate lines from the name or
names OF such qualified candidates
and in plainly legible type the words
For An Uninstructed Delegation"
and TO the right thereof square
for the cross-mark of the voter
in the same manner and rela-
j tive location as the square for the
cross-mark is printed to the right OF
the name of any candidate upon the
primary election ballots as in this
subtitle provided, so that such voters
Of the party who wish to vote for an
, uninstructed delegation to the ma
!. tional convention of their party may
: do so; and if 1t shall appear upon the
count and canvass of the votes cast
. in said primary election that a great.
er number of votes have been cast
: in such primary election in any coun-
: ty Of the State or legislative district
, of Baltimore City in favor of an un-
! instructed delegation than for any
: candidate in said primary for the
: nomination for president, the Super
visors Of Election and board of can
vassers for such county or legislative
r district shall SO certify, and the dele
CATION from each county or legislative
|, district in the State convention OF
D the party shall vote in such State
r convention for an uninstructed dele
|, CATION to the national convention as
; long as in their conscientious judg-
2 ment 1t shall appear to them that
: there is any possibility of a majority
of the members OF such State conven.
l tion voting for an uninstructed dele
3 cation; and If it shall so appear to
any such delegation that there is no
: such possibility. they shall vote in
their discretion for instructions upon
: the part Of the State convention for
2 such person for the candidate of their
: party for president or for vice-presi-
dent as they may deem wisest.
Any vacancy which may exist in
the delegation of any of such parties
2 TO any such national convention
shall be filled in the manner prescrib-
ed by section l60K with respect to
the filling of vacancies.
l60B. Said primary elections by
the political parties aforesaid shall
! be annually held throughout this
State. including Baltimore City, on
day to be fixed by an agreement
between the governing bodies of said
: parties for the State not earlier than
the eighth day OF September not
: later then the fifteen day of Septem-
Der Of and in each and every year,
except In those years in which there
shall be an election of a President
and Vice-President of the United
States, in which said presidential
: years the said primaries, including
primaries for nominating candidates
for Congress, delegates from the sew
eral counties and legislative districts
of Baltimore City to the State con-
vention, and all candidates to be
elected at the presidential elections.
other than delegates to National con-
ventions and presidential electors
(which said delegates and electors
shall. be chosen by the State conven-
ton as aforesaid), shall be held on
the first Monday In May. All such po-
litical parties as aforesaid, shall hold
their several primaries on the same
day. In case such governing bodies
for the State fail to agree on a date
within the period fixed aforesaid, that
is to say. not earlier than the eighth
nor later than the fifteenth day Of
September OF each and every year,
except the presidential years, said
primary election shah be held on the
: second Monday Of September in any
year. Notices shall be given Of the
times and places of holding said pri-
mary elections by the several Boards
of Supervisors Of Elections, IN the
City Of Baltimore and Of the counties
: OF this State. respectively, In the
: same way precisely as notice 10 re-
: quired to be given for a municipal
and county election held uader the
provisions Of Article SO of the Code
OF Pubic General Laws.