874 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

1904, art 33, sec. 50. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 46.

51. Should any person so nominated die before election day or
decline the nomination, as in this article provided, or should any certifi-
cate of nomination be or become insufficient or inoperative from any
cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled in the
manner required for original nominations. If the original nomination
was made by a party convention which had delegated to a committee
the power to fill vacancies, such committee may. upon the occurring of
such vacancies, proceed to fill the same; the chairman and secretary of
such committee shall thereupon make and file with the proper officer a
certificate setting forth the cause of the vacancy, the name of the
person nominated, the office for which he was nominated, the name of
the person for whom the new nominee is to be substituted, the fact that
the committee was authorized to fill vacancies, and such further informa-
tion as is required to be given in an original certificate of nomination.
The certificate so made shall be executed and acknowledged in the
manner prescribed for the original certificate of nomination, and shall,
except in case of a nominee dying, be filed at least eight days before
the day of election, and in cases of either resignation or death shall
be filed within siz days after the vacancy shall have occurred, and
upon being so filed shall have the same force and effect as an original
certificate of nomination. When such certificate shall be so filed with
the secretary of state, he shall in certifying the nomination to the super -
visors of elections insert the name of the person who has been thus
nominated to fill a vacancy in place of that of the original nominee;
and in case he has already sent forth his certificate he shall forthwith
certify to the supervisors the name and description of the person so
nominated to fill a vacancy, the office for which he is nominated, the
party or political principle he represents, and the name of the person
for whom he is substituted. In the case, however, of any nominee dying
within so short a time before the day of election that the certificate of
nomination of the new nominee shall not have been filed with or
certified to the supervisors of elections until after six days before the
day of election, thus being too late for the name of the new nominee to
be printed on the ballots in any county, or the city of Baltimore, as
hereinafter provided, the board of supervisors of such county or city
shall at once cause to be printed a sufficient number of stickers bearing
the name of such substituted nominee, and shall deliver the same in due
time to the judges of election for all of those precincts in said county
or city wherein said nominee may be voted for, and said judges shall
affix such stickers in the proper place on each ticket before it is given
out to the voter. If the resignation or disqualification or death and
consequent change of nominee shall have occurred and been made after
the first publication provided for in section 49 and before the second
publication, the board of supervisors shall, if possible, make the proper
change in the second publication.

Cited but not construed in Annapolis v. Gadd, 97 Md. 735.