1492 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

The State convention of each of said parties elected as afore-
said shall select the delegates to the national convention and
nominate or provide for the nomination of candidates for
Presidential electors of each of said parties in such manner as
said State convention may determine, provided that such dele-
gates to the national convention shall be instructed and shall
vote therein for candidates for the nomination for President as
hereinabove provided. The names of persons so nominated as
candidates for Presidential electors shall be certified by the
presiding officers of the State Convention to the Secretary of
State. 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 of
Maryland for President,, the several delegates from the several
counties and legislative districts voting for the preference, that
is to say, according to the instructions of their said counties
and legislative districts, respectively, in the manner above pre-
scribed and provided for. The chairman of the State con-
vention shall announce the final result of such balloting and in
accordance with such results shall duly certify to the tempo-
rary and permanent executive officers of the national convention
of the party, the choice and the instructions so ascertained and
determined of the Maryland delegation of such party in the
national convention with respect to the candidate of the party
for President of the United States.

The number of delegates at large and of district delegates,
together with alternates, who shall represent the respective
political parties subject to the provisions of this sub-title in the
respective national conventions of said parties shall be ascer-
tained and determined by the governing body for the whole
State of each of said parties not later than the 15th day of
April in each year in which such national conventions for the
nomination of President and Vice-President shall be held; pro-
vided that if the governing body for the whole State of any of
said parties shall not make such ascertainment and determina-
tion, the same may be made by the State convention of such
party.

(9) The results of such primary elections in the several
counties of the State and the several legislative districts of
Baltimore for the election of delegates to the State Convention
in Presidential years shall be canvassed, ascertained and certi-
fied in the same manner as is provided by law with respect to
the election of delegates from said several counties and legis-
lative districts to State conventions of said respective parties
to nominate candidates for State officers, and shall be made so
as to conform and harmonize with the provisions of this sub-
title respecting the election and instruction of delegates from