1452 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 581

be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

51. Should any persons 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 inoperative from any cause, the vacancy or vacancies thus
occasioned may be filled in the manner required for original
nominations. If the original nomination was made by a
party convention which had delegated to a committee the
power to fill vacancies, such committee may, upon the occur-
ring of such vacancies, proceed to fill the same; the chairman
and secretary 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 com-
mittee was authorized to fill vacancies and such further infor-
mation 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 cer-
tificate of nomination and shall, except in the case of a nomi-
nee dying, be filed at least ten days before the day of election,
and upon being so filed shall have the same force and effect as
an original certificate of nomination. When such certificate
shall be so filed with the Secretary of State, he shall, in certify-
ing 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 nomina-
tion of the new nominee shall not have been filed with or
certified to the Supervisors of Elections until ten days before
the day of election, thus being too late for the name of the
new nominee to be printed on the ballots in any county or
the City of Baltimore, as hereinafter provided, the Board of
Supervisors of such county or city shall at once cause to be
printed a sufficient number of stickers bearing the name of
such substitute nominee, and shall deliver the same in due time