1542 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

112. Upon the meeting of the persons returned elected as
electors of President and Vice-President, or of as many of said
persons as may attend on the day appointed by the Constitution
and laws of the United States, the said electors who are present,
before proceeding to perform the duties reposed in them, shall
fill any vacancy which may exist in the said college of electors at
such meeting, whether such vacancy be occasioned by absence
or otherwise; and the said person or persons so appointed to
fill such vacancy or vacancies shall be entitled to all rights and
privileges of those proclaimed by the Governor as duly elected
electors of President and Vice-President of the United States.

113. The electors for this State shall meet in the State
House in the City of Annapolis and give their votes for Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States on the day fixed
by law of the United States for meetings of electors of Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States.

114. Elections of United States Senators from Maryland,
except in cases of election for the purpose of filling any va-
cancy or vacancies in said office hereinafter provided for, shall
be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in Novem-
ber in the year 1946, and on the same day and month in every
sixth year thereafter, and also on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in November in the year 1950, and on the same day
and month in every sixth year thereafter; the places of voting
for said United States Senators at such election shall be at
the places of voting for Members of the House of Representa-
tives of the United States throughout the State, including
all the Congressional Districts thereof. In the event of a
vacancy in said office of Senator aforesaid, however said va-
cancy may arise, the Governor of the State shall make a tem-
porary appointment of a Senator who shall serve until the
people shall fill such vacancy by nomination and election as
in this Article provided; and it shall be the duty of the Gov-
ernor of the State within ten days after such vacancy shall
have been made or become known to him to issue a proclama-
tion accompanied by a writ of election declaring and providing
that at the next ensuing primary election held under the pro-
visions of this Article for the nomination of candidates for
public office in Baltimore City and in the several counties of
the State, candidates for said unexpired portion of the said
term of said office of Senator in which such vacancy has oc-
curred, shall be nominated in the manner aforesaid, and the
election of Senator to fill such unexpired portion of said term
shall take place, in the manner aforesaid, at the next ensuing
General Election for public officials whether said General Elec-
tion shall be the Congressional Election or a General Election
of Members of the General Assembly; provided, that if the