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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.

1896, ch. 202.

141. 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.

Representatives In Congress.

Ibid.

142. 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 ninety-six, and taking
place every second year thereafter.

Ibid.

143. If a vacancy should occur by death, resignation or other-
wise, at such a period as to make it necessary that a representa-
tive 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
such vacancy, which proclamation shall require at least twenty
days' notice of such election, to be given by the supervisors of
elections to the sheriffs of the respective counties or city of Balti-
more, comprising the congressional district in which such vacancy
may exist.

Congressional Districts.

Ibid.

144. This State shall be divided into six districts for the
choosing of six representatives in the Congress of the United
States, which will be numbered, respectively, from one to six.