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the said election in the mode prescribed hereinabove in this section,
as far as may be practicable. It shall not be necessary to print
sample ballots or cards of instructions for such elections, but either
or both shall be printed by the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
the City of Baltimore, when requested by any candidate in said
primary election, said request to be accompanied by a sum of money
necessary to cover the cost of printing.

VACANCIES IN NOMINATIONS

73.   Nomination Declined. (a) General Election. Whenever any
person nominated for public office as in this Article provided shall,
at least 65 days before election, in a writing signed by him or her and
acknowledged before a justice of the peace or a notary public, notify
the officer with whom the certificate nominating him is required to
be filed by this Article, that he or she declines such nomination, such
nomination shall be void; and the name of any person so withdrawing
shall not be printed upon the ballots.

(b) Primary Election. Whenever any person who has filed a certifi-
cate of candidacy for nomination in any primary election, in a writ-
ing signed by him or her, and acknowledged before a justice of the
peace or notary public, notify the officer or Board with whom the
certificate of candidacy is required to be filed by this Article, at least
65 days before the said primary that he or she desires to withdraw
as a candidate for such nomination, such certificate of candidacy
shall thereupon be and become void; and the name of any person so
withdrawing shall not be printed upon the ballots to be used at such
primary election and the filing fee shall be refunded.

74.   Filling Vacancies. (a) Manner. Should any person so nomi-
nated die before election day or decline the nomination, as in this
sub-title provided, or should any certificate of nomination be or be-
come insufficient or inoperative from any cause occurring after the
period of time for the filling of vacancies in party nominations as is
prescribed by Section 56 of this Article, the vacancy or vacancies
thus occasioned may SHALL be filled in the manner prescribed as
hereinafter set forth.

(b)  State, Judicial, Congressional Vacancies. 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 provisions of the preceding sections of this Article,
such vacancy shall be filled by the State Central Committee, or gov-
erning body for the State, of the political party to which said nomi-
nee belongs.

(c)  Primary Meeting. If the original nomination was made by a
primary meeting 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 com-
mittee shall thereupon make and file with the proper officer a certifi-
cate 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 in-
formation as is required to be given in an original certificate of