ART. 33.] ELECTIONS—SENATORS—REPRESENTATIVES. 675

1880, ch. 41.

114. The electors for this State shall meet in the State house,
in the city of Annapolis, and give their votes for president and
vice-president of the United States at the hour of noon, upon the
first Wednesday in December in the year in which they are
appointed.

United States Senators.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 85, sec. 73. 1809, ch. 22, sec. 1.

115. The senators chosen to represent this State in the senate
of the United States, shall be elected by the joint ballot of both
branches of the legislature—and the person qualified as the con-
stitution of the United States directs, having a majority of votes
of all the attending members in both branches of the legislature,
shall be declared duly elected.

Ibid. sec. 74. 1809, ch, 22. sec. 2. 1867, ch. 11.

116. One of the senators shall always be an inhabitant of the
eastern shore, and the other of the western shore of this State.

Ibid. sec. 75. 1809, ch. 22, sec. 8.

117. The commission of such senator shall be granted and exe-
cuted in the form and manner heretofore usually practised.

Representatives In Congress.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 35, secs. 76-77. 1852, ch. 52, sec. 1. 1868, ch. 335.

118. Elections of representatives of this State in the congress
of the United States, shall be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month of November every two years, com-
mencing in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and taking
place every second year thereafter.

Ibid. sec. 78. 1852, ch. 52, sec. 2.

119. If a vacancy should occur by death, resignation, or other-
wise, at such a period as to make it necessary that a representative
or representatives in congress from this State should be chosen
before the regular time for such election, the governor shall, by
proclamation, direct that a special election be held to fill said va-
cancy; which proclamation shall require at least twenty days'