become vacant by death, resignation, removal from the State,
or other disqualification of the said incumbent.
Miles vs. Bradford, 22 Md., 183.

SEC. 2. An election for Governor, under this Constitution,
shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and
on the same day and month in every fourth year thereafter,
at the places of voting for delegates to the General Assembly;
and every person qualified to vote for Delegates shall be qual-
ified and entitled to vote for Governor; the election to be held
in the same manner as the election of Delegates, and the re-
turns thereof under seal to be addressed to the Speaker of the
House of Delegates, and enclosed and transmitted to the Secre-
tary of State, and delivered to said Speaker, at the commence-
ment of the session of the General Assembly next ensuing said
election.

SEC. 3. The Speaker of the House of Delegates shall then
open the said returns in the presence of both Houses; and the
person having the highest number of votes, and being consti-
tutionally eligible, shall be the Governor, and shall qualify,
in the manner herein prescribed, on the second Wednesday of
January next ensuing his election, or as soon thereafter as
may be practicable.

SEC. 4. If two or more persons shall have the highest and
an equal number of votes for Governor, one of them shall be
chosen Governor by the Senate and House of Delegates, and
all questions in relation to the eligibility of Governor, and to
the returns of said election, and to the number and legality of
voters therein given, shall be determined by the House of
Delegates; and if the person or persona, having the highest
number of votes, be ineligible, the Governor shall be chosen
by the Senate and House of Delegates. Every election of
Governor by the General Assembly shall be determined by a
joint majority of the Senate and House of Delegates, and the
vote shall be taken viva voce. But if two or more persons
shall have the highest and an equal number of votes, then a
second vote shall be taken, which shall be confined to the per-
sons having an equal number; and if the vote should again
be equal, then the election of Governor shall be determined
by lot between those who shall have the highest and an equal
number on the first vote.

SEC. 5. A person to be eligible to the office of Governor
must have attained the age of thirty years, and must have
been for ten years a citizen of the State of Maryland, and for
five years next preceding his election a resident of the State,
and, at the time of his election, a qualified voter therein.

SEC. 6. In the case of death or resignation of the Gover-
nor, or of his removal from the State, or other disqualifica-