HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1503

under the provisions of the primary laws of this State which
it will thus supersede to the extent of the territory covered
by said review and recount.

And upon such petition and appeal as is herein provided for
being filed before the completion of any canvass by the ordi-
nary canvassing board of the State or of any county or munici-
pality thereof such board shall adjourn over and their canvass
shall be suspended until the appeal, review, recount and re-
canvass herein provided for shall have been completed, so
that said board shall make their certificate conform to the
action and finding and to the certificate given by said Super-
visors of Elections so sitting as judges of election on appeal.

Nothing in this section shall affect or prejudice any rights
of any person to contest the result of any primary election or
to institute proceedings to invalidate the same.

55. In the event of any vacancy occurring because of the
death or resignation of any person nominated for any State
or judicial office, or as a candidate for member of the Congress
of the United States or for United States Senator, under pro-
visions of the preceding sections of this Article, beginning with
Section 45, such vacancy shall be filled by the State Central
Committee, or governing body for the State, of the political
party to which said nominee belongs; and in the event of any
vacancy occurring because of the resignation or death of any
person nominated for any office in any county of this State
under the provisions of the aforesaid preceding section of, this
Article, such vacancy shall be filled by the State Central Com-
mittee, or governing body of the party to which said nominee
belongs of the county in which any such vacancy occurs.

ELECTIONS.

56. All ballot-boxes shall be constructed as follows: Each
box shall be one foot outside measure, as near as may be, in
width and length, and eighteen inches in depth, strapped and
secured on each edge and corner with brass mouldings, securely
brazed or soldered together at the junctions thereof, so as to
prevent it from being easily broken; it shall have a strong
wooden lid, which shall be fastened to the box with brass or
iron hinges, not accessible from the outside, and shall have a
good lock; there shall be a slit in the lid just large enough to
admit a single folded ballot at one time, and the sides and bot-
tom of the box shall be of clear plate glass not less than one-
eighth of an inch in thickness. Each such box, when not in
actual use at a polling place, shall be kept in a wooden case for
the protection of the same and its contents in the transporta-
tion and storage thereof.