Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-17
Public General Laws

Only authorized 10 take Acknowledgements. |
who shall append a certificate of such ack-
nowledgment The certificate TO be filed by
candidate seeking to be elected as delegate
to convention shall. moreover, specify the
convention to which he seeks to be elected
All such certificates must be fled and pay
ments made by candidates for the nomination
Of Governor, Comptroller, Attorney General
and Clerk of the Court OF Appeals not less
than thirty days before the day Of said pri-
mary election and by all other candidates
not less than twenty days before said pri-
mary election. The names Of the several
candidates for nomination or for delegates,
executive or member of an executive commit
tee, or managing body of a political party
aforesaid. shall be published seven days be-
fore the said election in the mode prescribed
in Section 80 Of THIS article, as far as may
be practicable. 1t shall not be necessary TO
print sample ballots or cards OF instructions
for such elections but either or both shall be
printed by the Board of Supervisors OF Elec-
lions Of the City of Baltimore. when request
ed by any candidate in said primary election,
said request to be accompanied by a sum OF
money necessary to cover the cost of print
ing Each candidate for nomination for pub
lie Office at a primary election shall pay the
sum Of twenty-five (S25ooJ dollars for each
county or legislative district Of Baltimore
City in which his name appears upon the
ballot: provided. that in any county where
the salary of the office for which nomination
is sought is three hundred (S300o dollars
or less, such payment shall be ten ($10.00)
dollars upon filing his respective certificate
with the Board of Supervisors of Elections
but candidates for Governor, Attorney Gen
eral, Comptroller or Clerk of the Court of
Appeals of the State shall file their said GER
tificates OF nomination with the Secretary OF
State at Annapolis. and the Secretary OF
State, Immediately on receipt of the same shall
certify the fact of said filing and the name
and description of each person filing said
certificate specified therein to the Super
visors of Elections of Baltimore City and OF
every county in the State. Said candidates
for Governor, Comptroller. Attorney General
and Clerk of the Court OF Appeals. upon fl
ing their respective certificates with the Sec
rotary of State aforesaid, shall each pay
TO him the sum Of two hundred and seventy
(S27o.00) dollars which in turn shall be
transmitted by him in sums OF ten $4,000
dollars each to the Supervisors of Elections
of each county of the State, and the sum OF
forty ($40.00) dollars thereof to tho Super
visors of Elections of Baltimore City; and
the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
Baltimore City shall pay over the amount so
received to the Mayor and City Council OF
Baltimore, and the Board of Supervisors OF
Elections for each county shall pay over the
amount so received to the County Commits
sioners of each county respectively: and all
the expenses of each of said primary cleo
tons in Baltimore City shall be paid by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and
all the expenses of holding said primary
elections in each county, respectively pre-
fisely as the expenses of the State City and
County elections are now paid under existing
laws; aud the said ballots shall be prepared
and printed in number not less than ttcice
the number Of registered UOteTs OF the re-
spectiUe political parties participating In such
primary, nearly as the same mag be esti-
mated, and shall be delivered by such Boards
Of Supervisors Of Elections to the election
officials provided in this Article for gen
erdl elections.
1875. The names of candidates for nomi-
nation for each office or for each place or po-
sition aforesaid, respectively, shall be ar
ranged alphabetically upon the ballots ac-
cording to the surnames Of the candidates.
Ballots in all said primary elections shall be
cast counted and canvassed and the result
OF the election announced and certified in
Baltimore City and in each of the counties
of the State, as now provided by this Article
for general elections; and the said primary
elections shall be held and conducted and de-
termined in the manner and form provided
by this Article for general elections, and sub
ject to all the regulations, requirements and
provisions prescribed by this Article for
general elections in so far as the same are
or may be applicable TO said primary cleo
lions and except as may be herein provided
And the provisions of the general election
law, governing election contests are hereby
expressly declared to be applicable TO such
primary elections. Challengers and watchers
representing the candidates in any said pri-
mary elections shall be allowed to be present
at the several voting places during the vot-
ing and counting OF the ballots, as provided
in this Article with respect to general cleo
tions. AS each voters name shall be entered
in the poll book kept by the two clerks OF
election, there shall be entered opposite his
name the name of the party whose candidate
or candidates be voted for. If in Baltimore City
or in any county more names are marked for
any office than there are persons to be voted
for, such ballots shall not be counted for such
candidate or delegates, or other persons to
be voted for, as the case may be; but the
whole ballot shall not for that reason be re-
tected for candidates for other Offices or posi-
tions, If any.
1875. II any person upon the day of such
primary election, or before the canvass of the
votes is completed, shall conceal or wilfully
break or destroy any ballot-box used or in
tended to be used at such primary election. or
shall wilfully and fraudulently conceal, secrete
or remove any such ballot-box or the book
OF registry or any of the ballots, stubs or
coupons or other paraphernalia provided for
holding such primaries from the custody of
the Judge or judges Of primary election or
other proper persons in charge thereof, or
shall alter, defaee. injure or destroy or con-
eeal any ballot which has been deposited I'm
any ballot-box at such primary election
which has not been counted and canvassed. or
any poll list or book of registry used at
such primary election or any report, return,
certihcate or any evidence in this subtitle
required, or any person who shall print or
circulate as an official ballot one that is not
Official and complete, he shall upon conyic-
ton thereof, be ad1udged guilty OF a felony
and shall for each and every such offense be
punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary
for not less than one or more than five years
1913. Whoever shall electioneer within one
hundred feet Of any polling place of any such
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