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him to the person selected by the Governor to compile and
index the laws passed at such session of the General Assembly.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 18, 1943.

CHAPTER 169.
(Senate Bill 85)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 94 of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Elections", sub-title "Nominations. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 94 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Elections", sub-title "Nomina-
tions", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

94. 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 occurring after the period of
time for the filling of vacancies in party nominations as is pre-
scribed by Section 90 of this Article, the vacancy or vacancies
thus occasioned may be filled in the manner required for orig-
inal 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 occurring 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 committee
was authorized to fill vacancies and such further information
as is required to be given in an original certificate of nomina-
tion. The certificate so made shall be executed and acknowl-
edged in the manner prescribed for the original certificate of
nomination and shall, except in the case of a nominee 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 certifying the