LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE GOVERNOR.

of such committee shall thereupon make and tile with the
proper officer a certificate setting forth the cause of the vacancy,
the name of the person nominated, the office for which he wa&
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, acknowledged and filed in the manner
prescribed for the original certificate of nomination, and shall
except in case of a nominee dying, be filed at least eight day&
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 shall have the same force
and effect as an original certificate of nomination. 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 nominee shall not have been tiled with or certified
to' the Supervisors of Elections until after six days before the
day of election, thus being to late for the name of the new
nominee to be printed on the ballots, the Board of Supervisors
of said city shall at once cause to be printed a sufficient num-
ber of stickers bearing the name of such substituted nominee,
and shall deliver the same in due time to the judges of election
for all of those precincts in said city, and said judges shall
affix such stickers in the proper place on each ticket before it
is given out to the voter. If the resignation, or disqualifica-
tion, or death and consequent change of nominee shall have
occurred and been made after the first publication provided
for in section 270 MM, and before the second publication, the
Board of Supervisors shall, if possible, make the proper
change in the second publication. If questions of local con-
cern are to be submitted for approval to the vote of the
people of said city, the same shall be certified to said Supervi-
sors of Elections within said period by the Board of Aldermen
and shall be advertised as herein .provided in the case of
nominees for city offices.

BALLOTS AND BALLOT BOXES.
270 P P. All ballots cast in elections for public offices in

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Frederick city shall be printed and distributed as hereinafter
provided. The printing of ballots and cards of instruction
for the voters in the City of Frederick, and the delivery of
the same to the judges of elections, as provided in this Article,
shall be at public expense, the payment of which shall be
provided for by the City of Frederick. All ballot boxes shall

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Ballots, cards
of instruc-
tion and
ballot
boxes.