1364 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 780

gates from each of said counties and legislative districts shall
continue so to vote in the State convention for the choice of
their several counties and legislative districts as aforesaid,
as long as in their conscientious judgment there is any possi-
bility of said choice obtaining a majority of the votes of the
State convention and as long as said choice is voted for by
the delegates of any nine counties of Maryland in said con-
vention, any legislative district of Baltimore City to be taken
and considered for such purpose as the equivalent of a county.
After taking such number of ballots in said State convention
as may be necessary to show or ascertain a majority of said
entire State convention for any one candidate for President
the chairman of said convention shall announce that the per-
son so receiving such majority of the votes of all the delegates
in said State convention for President has been chosen by the
voters of the party holding such State convention of the State
of Maryland as their choice for candidate for President in the
national convention for such political party, and all the dele-
gates of such party selected by such State convention to the
national convention of such party from the State of Maryland
shall be instructed and bound to vote as a unit in the national
convention for such candidate for President so selected as the
choice of the State of Maryland as aforesaid, and such dele-
gates shall continue to vote in such national convention for
the choice of the State of Maryland, as aforesaid, for Presi-
dent as long as in their conscientious judgment there is any
possibility of his being nominated.

The delegates from the several counties of the State and
legislative districts of Baltimore City to the State convention
held to select and deputize delegates from Maryland of said
several political parties to their respective national con-
ventions shall be elected by the direct vote of the qualified
voters of each of said political parties in each of said counties
and legislative districts in the manner prescribed by this sub-
title for the nomination of candidates for public office and
delegates to conventions in primary election by the direct
vote.

The State convention of each of said parties elected as
aforesaid shall select the delegates to the national convention
and nominate candidates for Presidential electors of each of
said parties in such manner as said State convention may
determine, provided that such delegates to the national con-
vention shall be instructed and shall vote therein for can-
didates for the nomination for President as hereinabove pro-
vided. As soon as the delegates to the national convention
and the Presidential electors of any of such party shall have
been chosen by said State convention, said convention shall
then proceed to ballot for the selection for choice of such party