674 ELECTIONS—PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. [ART. 33.

Electors of President and Vice-President.

P. G L , (1860,) art. 35, sec. 68. 1833, ch. 261, sec. 1.

109. On the first Tuesday next after the first Monday of
November preceding the time fixed by law of the United States,
for choice of president and vice-president of the United States,
there shall be elected by general ticket as many electors of presi-
dent and vice-president as this State shall be entitled to appoint.

Ibid. sec. 69. 1833, ch. 261, sec. 1.

110. Each citizen of this State entitled to vote for delegates
to the general assembly, shall have the right to vote for the
whole number of electors; and the several persons, to the num-
ber required to be chosen, having the highest number of votes,
shall be declared and deemed duly appointed electors.

Ibid. sec. 70. 1833, ch. 261, sec. 1.

111. If any of the persons voted for as electors shall have an
equal number of votes, so as to defeat a choice between them,
the governor shall determine by lot which of the persons having
such equal number of votes shall be electors, so as to complete
the whole number to which the State shall be entitled.

Ibid. sec. 71. 1833, ch. 261, sec. 2.

112. The said election shall, in all respects, be conducted as
other elections, and the returns thereof made as hereinbefore
directed.

Ibid. sec. 72. 1833, ch. 261, sec 3. 1880, ch. 41.

113. Upon the meeting of the persons returned elected as
electors of president and vice-president, or of as many of said
persons as may attend on the day appointed by the constitution
and laws of the United States, the said electors who are present,
before proceeding to perform the duties reposed in them, shall
fill any vacancy which may exist in the said college of electors,
at such meeting, whether such vacancy be occasioned by absence
or otherwise; and the said person or persons so appointed to fill
such vacancy or vacancies shall be entitled to all the rights and
privileges of those proclaimed by the governor as duly elected
electors of president and vice-president of the United States.