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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

notary public, notifying the officer with whom the certificate
nominating him is, by this article, required to be filed, that he
declines such nomination, such nomination shall be void, and
the name of any person so declining shall not be printed upon
the ballots.

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 in-

Vacancies in
nomina-
tions how-

to be filed

operative from any cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus occa-
sioned may be filled in the manner required for origiqal nomi-
nations. If the original nomination was made by a party
eonvention which had delegated to a committee the power to
fill vacancies, such committee may, upon the occurring of such
vacancies, proceed to fill the same; the chairman and secre-
tory of such committee 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 substituted, 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 nomi-
nation, 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 certificate of nomina-
tion. When such certificate shall be so filed with the Secre-
tary of State, he shall, in certifying the nomination 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 his
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
political 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 nomi-
nee shall not have been filed with or certified to tho super-
visors of election until after six days before the day of
election, thus being too late for the name of the new nom-
inee to be printed on the ballots in any county or the