270 ELECTIONS. [ART. 35.

67. No person contesting a seat of any one who has been
regularly returned by the judges of election, as elected to a seat
in the Senate or House of Delegates, shall be allowed any per
diem, mileage, or other pay, unless the party so contesting shall
establish his right to such seat.

ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT.

68. On the first Tuesday next after the first Monday of No-
vember preceding the time fixed by law of the United States
for choice of President and Vice President of the United States,
there shall be elected by general ticket as many electors of
President and Vice President as this State shall be entitled to
appoint.

69. Each citizen of this State entitled to vote for Delegates to
the General Assembly, shall have the right to vote for the whole
number of electors; and the several persons, to the number re-
quired to be chosen, having the highest number of votes, shall
be declared and deemed duly appointed electors.

70. If any of the persons voted for as electors shall have an
equal number of votes, so as to defeat a choice between them,
the Governor shall determine by lot which of the persons having
such equal number of votes, shall be electors, so as to complete
the whole number to which the State shall be entitled.

71. The said election shall, in all respects, be conducted as
other elections, and the returns thereof made as hereinbefore
directed.

72. Upon the meeting of the persons returned elected Electors
of President and Vice President, or as many of said persons as
may attend on. the day appointed by the Constitution and laws
of the United States, before proceeding to perform the trust re-
posed in them, the place of any absent member may be supplied
by the members present, who shall have power to appoint the
same; and the said person, when appointed and qualified, shall
be entitled to all the rights and privileges of those proclaimed
by the Governor as duly elected Electors of President and Vice
President of the United States.