ELECTIONS. 1323

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 Mary-
land as their choice for candidate for President in the national convention
for such political party, and all the delegates 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 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 possibility of his being nominated.

The delegates from the several counties of the State and legislative dis-
tricts of Baltimore City to the State convention held to select and deputize
delegates from Maryland of said several political parties to their respec-
tive 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 legisla-
tive 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
for Presidential electors of each of said parties in such manner as said
State convention may determine, provided that such delegates to the na-
tional convention shall be instructed and. shall vote 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 con-
vention 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 preference, that is to say,
according to the instructions of their said counties and legislative dis-
tricts, 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
temporary and permanent executive officers of the national convention of
the party, the choice and the instructions so ascertained and determined
of the Maryland delegation of such party in the national convention with
respect to the candidate of the party for President of the United States.

The number of delegates at large and of district delegates, together
with alternates, who shall represent the respective political parties sub-
ject to the provisions of this sub-title in the respective national conven-
tions of said parties shall be ascertained and determined by the govern-
ing body for the whole State of each of said parties not later than the 15th
day of April in each year in which such national conventions for the
nomination of President and Vice-President shall be held; provided that
if the governing body for the whole State of any of said parties shall not