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death, resignations, disqualification, or removal
out
of the state, of any of the said commissioners or
treasurers,
in the recess of the general assembly, the governor,
with the advice of the council, may appoint
and commission a fit and proper person to such vacant
office, to hold the same until the meeting of the next
general assembly.
XV. That the senate be chosen
in the following
manner: All persons, qualified as aforesaid to vote for
county delegates, shall, on the first Monday of September,
seventeen hundred and ninety-six, and on the
same day in every fifth year for ever thereafter, elect,
viva voce, by a majority of votes, two persons for their
respective counties, qualified as aforesaid to be elected
county delegates, to be electors of the senate; and the
sheriff of each county, or in case of sickness, his deputy,
(summoning two justices of the county, who are
required to attend, for the preservation of the peace,)
may be adjourned and continued for four days, and no
longer, and make return thereof as aforesaid: And all
persons, qualified as aforesaid to vote for delegates for
the city of Annapolis and Baltimore-town, shall, on
the same first Monday of September, seventeen hundred
and ninety-six, and on the same day in every
fifth year for ever thereafter, elect viva voce, by a
majority of votes, one person for the said city and
town respectively, qualified as aforesaid to be elected
a delegate for the said city and town respectively; the
said election to be held in the same manner as the
election of delegates for the said city and town, the
right to elect the said elector, with respect to Baltimore-town,
to continue as long as the right to elect
delegates for the said town.
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