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268 ELECTIONS. [ART. XXXIII
tive as law, and all laws and rules and regulations inconsistent with
this sub-title shall be suspended:
(a) Certificates of nomination shall be filed respectively with the
Secretary of State not less than 43 days, and with the Supervisors of
Elections not less than 40 days before the day of election, and in all
other respects Section 47 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code, Chapter
133, Acts of 1902, is to remain in full force and operation.
(b) Not less than 36 days before an election to fill any public office,
the Secretary of State shall certify to the Supervisors of Elections ot
each county and of Baltimore City the name and description of nominees
in the manner provided for in Section 48 of Article 33 of the Anno-
tated Code, Chapter 202, Acts of 1896, and in all other respects the
said Section 48 is to remain in full force and operation.
(c) Notifications by those declining nominations shall be made at
least 35 days before election, and in all other respects Section 50 of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code, Chapter 202, Acts of 1896, shall
remain in full force and operation.
(d) Should any person nominated to fill a public office die before
election day or decline the nomination, as herein provided, or should
any certificate of nomination be or become insufficient or inoperative,
the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned may be filled in the manner
provided for original nominations. The certificate of the substituted
candidate shall, except in case of a nominee dying, be filed at least 30
days before the day of election, and in cases of either resignation or
death shall be filed within six days after the vacancy shall have occurred.
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to certify all such substi-
tute nominations to the Supervisors of Elections immediately after they
are filed with him. In case of a vacancy occurring within so short a
time before the day of election that the certificate of nomination of the
new nominee shall be too late for the name of the new nominee to be
printed in the ballots in any county or in the City of Baltimore, the
Board of Election Supervisors of such county or city shall at once cause
to be printed a sufficient number of stickers bearing the name of such
substitute nominee and shall affix such stickers in their proper places
on the ballots to be sent by mail to absent voters, as hereinafter provided
for. All ballots sent before the stickers are affixed are to be void only
as to the mark opposite the name of the candidate whose name has been
withdrawn. The other marks, if made according to law, shall be
counted at the time and in the manner hereinafter provided for. In
all tther respects Section 51 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code,
Chapter 715, Acts of 1914, shall remain in full force and operation.
(e) Whenever a proposed Constitution or Constitutional Amend-
ment, or other question, is submitted as provided for in Section 52,
Article 33 of the Annotated Code, Chapter 202, Acts of 1896, the Sec-
retary of State shall certify the same not less than 45 days before the
election, and the County Commissioners, or Register of the City of
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