296 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 134]

and distinctly separated by appropriate lines from the name
or names of such qualified candidates and in plainly legible type
the words "For An Uninstructed Delegation," and to the right
thereof a square for the cross-mark of the voter in the same
manner and relative location as the square for the cross-mark
is printed to the right of the name of any candidate upon the
primary election ballots as in this sub-title provided, so that
such voters of the party who wish to vote for an uninstmcted
delegation to the national convention of their party may do
so; and if it shall appear upon the count and canvass of the
votes cast in said primary elections that a greater number of
votes have been cast in such primary election in any county
of the State or legislative district of Baltimore City in favor
of an uninstructed delegation than for any candidate in said
primary for the nomination for president, the Supervisors of
Elections and board of canvassers for such county or legislative
district shall so certify, and the delegation from each county or
legislative district in the State convention of the party shall
vote in such State convention for an uninstructed delegation
to -the national convention as long as in their conscientious
judgment it shall appear to them that there is any possibility
of a majority of the members of such State convention voting
for an uninstructed delegation; and if it shall so appear to
any such delegation that there is no such possibility, they shall
vote in their discretion for instructions upon the part of the
State convention for such person for the candidate of their
party for president as they may deem wisest.

Any vacancy which may exist in the delegation of any of
such parties to any such national convention shall be filled in
the manner prescribed by section 160K with respect to the
filling of vacancies.

160B. Said primary elections by the political parties afore-
said shall be annually held throughout this State, including
Baltimore City, on a day to be fixed by an agreement between
the governing bodies of said parties for the State not earlier
than the eighth day of September not later than the fifteenth
day of September of and in each and every year, except in those
years in which there shall be an election of a President and
Vice-President of the United States, in which said presidential
years the said primaries, including primaries for nominating
candidates for Congress, delegates from the several counties
and legislative districts of Baltimore City to the State Con-
vention, and all candidates to be elected at the presidential
elections, other than delegates to National Conventions and
presidential electors (which said delegates and electors shall