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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said court, or by order of the Senate or House of Delegates,
in whichever the seat is contested.

Pay of Jus-
tice and
witnesses.

134. The justice before whom such depositions shall be
taken shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars for every day
he may be engaged in the examination of witnesses, and the
witnesses shall be entitled to the usual allowance for their
attendance before a justice of the peace, to be paid by the
party on whose behalf such examination is held and said wit-
nesses are summoned.

Person con-
testing not
entitled to
mileage,
etc.

135. No person contesting a 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.

Election of
electors.

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-Pre&ident 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.

Qualification
of voters.

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 he chosen, having the highest nnmber of votes,
shall be declared and deemed duly appointed electors...

Tie vote.

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 hay-
ing such equal number of votes shall be electors, so as to com-
plete the whole number to which the State shall be entitled.

Election, hov
conducted.

139. The said election shall in all respects be conducted as
other elections, and the returns thereof made and canvassed, as
hereinbefore directed.

Vacancies.

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,
before proceeding to perform the duties reposed in them, shall
fill any vacancy which may exist in the said college of electors