294 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch, 134]

entire State convention for any one candidate for president,
the chairman of said convention shall announce that the person
so receiving such majority of the votes of all the delegates in
said State convention for president has been chosen by the
voters of the party holding such State convention of the State
of Maryland as their choice for candidate for president in the
national convention for such political party, and all the dele-
gates of such party selected by such State convention to the
national convention of such party from the State of Maryland
shall be instructed and bound to vote as a unit in the national
convention for such candidate for president so selected as the.
choice of the State of Maryland as aforesaid, and such, dele-
gates shall continue to vote in such national convention for the
choice of the State of Maryland, as aforesaid, for president as
long as in their conscientious judgment there is any possibility
of his being nominated.

The delegates from the several counties of the State and
legistative districts of Baltimore City to the State convention
held to select and deputize delegates from Maryland of said
several political parties to their respective national conventions
shall be elected by the direct vote of the qualified voters of each
of said political parties in each of said counties and legislative
districts in the manner prescribed by this sub-title for the nomi-
nation of candidates for public office and delegates to conven-
tions in primary election by the direct vote.

The State convention of each of said parties elected as afore-
said shall select the delegates to the national convention and
nominate candidates for presidential and vice-presidential elec-
tors of each of said parties in such manner as said State con-
vention may determine, provided that such delegates to the
national convention shall be instructed and shall note therein
for candidates for the nomination for president as hereinabove
provided. As soon as the delegates to the national convention
and the presidential electors of any of such party shall have
been chosen by said State convention, said convention shall
then proceed to ballot for the selection for choice of such party
of Maryland for president, the several delegations from the
several counties and legislative districts voting for the prefer-
ence, that is to say, according to the instructions of their said
counties and legislative districts, respectively, in the manner
above prescribed and provided for. The chairman of the State
convention shall announce the final result of such balloting and
in accordance with such results shall duly certify to the tem-
porary and permanent executive officers of the national con-
vention of the party, the choice and the instructions so ascer-