ART. 33] ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. 291
1896, ch. 202.
135. No person contesting the seat of any one who has been
regularly returned by the judges of election as elected to a seat
in the Senate or House of Delegates, shall be allowed any per
diem, mileage or other pay, unless the party so contesting shall
establish his right to such seat.
Electors of President and Vice-President.
Ibid.
136. 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 tickets as many electors
of President and Vice-President as this State shall be entitled to
appoint.
Ibid.
137. 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.
138. 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.
139. The said election shall in all respects be conducted as
other elections, and the returns thereof made and canvassed, as
hereinbefore directed.
Ibid.
140. 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,
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