The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1912-05-10
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

name or group of names of any quail
fed candidate or candidates for the
nomination 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 relative location as the
square for the cross-mark is printed
| to the right of the name of any can
didate upon the primary election bal
lots as in this subtitle provided, so
that such voters of the party who wish
to vote for an instructed delegation
to the national convention of their
party may do so; and if it shall appear
upon the count and canvass of the
votes cast in said primary election
| that a greater number of votes have
| been cast in such primary election in
| any county of the State or legislative
district of Baltimore City in favor
| of an uninstructed delegation than of
any candidate in said primary for the
| nomination for President the Super
visors of Election and board of can
vassers for such county or legisla-
| tive district shall so certify, and the
delegation from each county or legls-
| lative district in the State convention
of the party shall vote in such State
convention for an uninstructed dele
cation to the national convention as
| long as in their conscientious Judg-
ment it shall appear to them that
there is any possibility of majority
| of the members of such State conven-
| ton voting for an uninstructed dele
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
such person for the candidate of their
party for President as they may deem
| wisest.
Any vacancy which may exist in
| the delegation of any of such parties
| to any such national convention shall
! be filled in the manner prescribed by
section 160K with respect to the fill
| ing of vacancies.
160B. Said primary elections by the
political parties aforesaid shall be an
| nually held throughout this State, in
Guiding 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 than the
fifteenth day of September of and in
each and every year, except in those
years in which there shall be an cleo
ton of President and yice-President
of the United States, in which said
Presidential years the said primaries,
lid nrir1 RIG for Nominating
candidates for Congress, delegates
from the several counties and legisla-
tive districts of Baltimore City to the
State convention, and all candidates to
be elected at the Presidential cleo
tions, other than delegates to Ma
tional Conventions and Presidential
electors (Which said delegates and
electors shall be chosen by the State
Convention as aforesaid), shall be held
on the first Monday in May. All such
political 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 afore-s
said. 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 shall be held on
the second Monday of September in
T amy year. Notices shall be given OF
the times and places of holding said
primary elections by the several
Boards of Supervisors of Elections, in
the City of Baltimore and of the coun-
ties of this State, respectively, in the
same way precisely as notice is re-
quired to be given for a municipal
and county election held under the
provisions of Article SO of the Code
of Public General Laws.
Section 2. And be it further enact
ed, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved April 4, 1912.
PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH,
Governor.
JESSE D. PRICE,
President of Senate.
JAMES Nee. Triple,
Speaker of House of Delegates.