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only two candidates and also as to the first and second choice or preference
of the voters of such party for the candidates so voted upon where there
are more than two, and such certificate shall be accepted as the credentials
of such delegation in such convention of such party and as the instruc-
tions of the voters of such party in such county and legislative district of
Baltimore City as to how the votes of such delegation are to be cast, and
duplicates of such certificate shall be mailed at once by said Supervisors
of Elections to the chairman of the State Central Committee of the State
of each of the political parties coming within the provisions of this article.
Such convention may be called according to such party rules or usage, not
later than five weeks prior to the election following such primary election,
and immediately after such credentials have been received and the body
has effected a permanent organization it shall proceed to the nomination
of its candidates. The several delegations shall be 'required to cast and the
chairman shall announce the vote according to such instructions so re-
ceived by the several delegations in the primaries so held in their respec-
tive counties or legislative districts of Baltimore City and if the result of
such ballot in such convention shows that there has been no nomination
for such office by a majority vote of such convention, then and in that
event the candidate receiving the lowest vote for such office shall be dropped
from the balloting by the convention, and the delegation or delegations so
voting for such candidate whose name is so dropped on the first ballot
shall cast their vote on the second ballot of such convention for the candi-
date or candidates who is or are the second choice of such counties or
legislative districts of Baltimore City as appears from the credentials and
instructions of such delegations, and if no nomination is made by such
convention for such office by a majority of the delegates upon such second
ballot, the same process of dropping the last lowest candidate and trans-
ferring the votes of the delegations voting for the same to their second
choice as shown by their said instructions shall be continued until a nomi-
nation for such office shall have been made and declared by such conven-
tion by a majority vote of the delegates constituting the same; provided,
that when a delegation from any county or legislative district have first
voted for their county's or legislative district's first choice until he has
been dropped as the lowest candidate in convention and have subsequently
voted for their second choice until he in turn has been dropped in the
same way, they may then and only then after their first and second choices
have been thus dropped, vote without instructions for any candidate they
desire among the candidates still remaining before the convention; if one
or more delegates to such convention shall be absent when any such ballot
is taken, the member or members of such delegation present shall cast the
vote of the entire delegation according to such instructions; and in case
of a tie vote on any ballot the chairman of the convention shall cast the
deciding vote on that ballot. All nominations to be made by such conven-
tions shall be made in like manner and certified as required by this article.
Such certificate shall also show that in the nomination of such candidates
for such offices the votes of the delegations from the several counties and
legislative districts of Baltimore City were cast according to the instruc-