EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 273

CHAPTER 160.

AN ACT to repeal sections 184, 185, 195 and 198 of Article
33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Elections. "
sub-title "Primary Elections, " and to re-enact said sections
with amendments, so as to abolish what is known as the
Envelope System of voting in Primary Elections; and also
to add a new section to said Article 33 of said Code, to fol-
low immediately after Section 198 thereof, and to be known
as Section 198A, providing that offenses committed under
the said Sections repealed and re-enacted by this Act before
this Act-takes effect, shall be prosecuted and punished as
if this Act had never been passed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 184, 185, 195 and 198 of Article 33
of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Elections, " sub-
title "Primary Elections, " be and the same hereby are respec-
tively repealed and respectively re-enacted with amendments
so as to read as follows:

184. Official ballots shall be prepared and printed for
such primary elections in Baltimore City and in the sev-
eral counties, respectively, by the said several Boards
of Supervisors of Elections for said city and said several
counties, respectively, as is now provided by this Arti-
cle for general elections, except as otherwise provided
for in this sub-title, and except that on the back and
outside of all such official ballots' shall be printed only the
words "Official Ballot For, " followed by the designation
of the county or legislative district of Baltimore City,
as the case may be, for which it is prepared ami
said several Boards of Supervisors of Elections shall print
or cause to be printed on said official ballots the names
of all candidates for office to be voted for, and for
delegates to any convention, or for party executive or
executives, or for membership of any executive committee
or managing body of any political party, who shall become
duly qualified by the payment of the amount herein named,
when any payment is herein required, and shall have
filed a certificate in writing with the Board of Supervisors
of Elections in Baltimore City or in any of the counties, as
the case may be, containing the name of the person seeking a
nomination for office or to be a delegate to a convention, or an
executive or member of an executive committee or managing