568 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

by Section 188 of this sub-title with respect to the votes for first and
second choice and the tallies, returns and certificates of such first and
second choice in the nomination of candidates for Governor and other
State offices.

The several delegations from each county and legislative district in
the State shall be required to cast their votes on each and every ballot
in the State convention with respect to the instruction and the votes in
the national convention of the delegates sent from Maryland by such
State convention to the national convention for President in accordance
with the instructions received from the voters in'each of the several
counties and legislative districts as certified in their credentials by the
respective Supervisors of Elections of said counties and legislative dis-
tricts, respectively, and such delegates from each of said counties and
legislative districts shall continue so to vote in the State convention
for the choice of their several counties and legislative districts as afore-
said, as long as in their conscientious judgment there is any possibility
of said choice obtaining a majority of the votes of the State convention
and as long as said choice is voted for by the delegates of any nine
counties of Maryland in said convention, any legislative district of
Baltimore City to. he taken and considered for such purpose as the
equivalent of a County.

After taking such number of ballots in said State convention as may
be necessary to show or ascertain a majority of said entire State con-
vention for any one candidate for President the chairman of said con-
vention 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 candi-
date for President so selected as the choice of the State of Maryland
as aforesaid, and such delegates 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 possi-
bility of his being nominated.

The delegates from the several counties of the State and legislative
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 nomination of candidates for public office and delegates
to conventions in primary election by the direct vote.

The State convention of each of said parties elected as aforesaid shall
select the delegates to the national convention and nominate candidates