2S6U ELECTIONS. [ART. 3S

1896, ch. 202.

46. Should any person so nominated die before election day
or decline the nomination, as in this article provided, or should
any certificate of nomination be or become insufficient or inop-
erative from any cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned'
may be filled in the manner required for original nominations.
If the original nomination was made by a party convention
which had delegated to a committee the power to fill vacancies,
such committee may, upon the occurring of such vacancies, pro-
ceed to fill the same; the chairman and secretary of such com-
mittee shall thereupon make and file with the proper officer a
certificate setting forth the cause of the vacancy, the name of
the person nominated, the office for which he was nominated, the
name of the person for whom the new nominee is to be substitu-
ted, the fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies,
and such further information as is required to be given in an
original certificate of nomination; the certificate so made shall
be executed and acknowledged in the manner prescribed for the
original certificate of nomination, and shall, except in case of a
nominee dying, be filed at least eight 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, and upon
being so filed have the same force and effect as an original certi-
ficate of nomination. When such certificate shall be so filed
with the Secretary of State, he shall, in certifying the nomina-
tion to the supervisors of elections, insert the name of the person
who has been thus nominated to fill a vacancy in place of that
of the original nominee; and in case he has already sent forth
hie certificate he shall forthwith certify to the supervisors the
name and description of the person so nominated to fill a
vacancy, the office for which he is nominated, the party or polit-
ical principle he represents, and the name of the person for
whom he is substituted. In the case, however, of any nominee
dying within so short a time before the day of election, that the
certificate of nomination of the new nominee shall not have
been filed with or certified to the supervisors of elections until
after six days before the day of election, thus being too late for
the name of the new nominee to be printed on the ballots in any
county or the city of Baltimore, as hereinafter provided, the