CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		the Treasury all sums on the Books thereof,
		charged to, and due by him.
	Section 3.10. Election and Term of Office.	Sec. 6. The members of the House of
	A member of the General Assembly shall	Delegates shall be elected by the qualified
	be elected by the voters of the district in	voters of the Counties, and the Legislative
	which he seeks election, to serve for a term	Districts of Baltimore City, respectively,
	beginning at noon on the second Wednesday	to serve for four years, from the day of
	of December following his election and end-	their election.
	ing at noon on the second Wednesday of De-
	cember in the fourth year thereafter.	Sec. 7. The election for Senators and
		Delegates shall take place on the Tuesday
		next, after the first Monday in the month
		of November, nineteen hundred and fifty-
		eight, and in every fourth year thereafter.
	Section 3.11. Vacancies.	Sec. 13. (a) In case of death, dis-
	A vacancy in the General Assembly shall	qualification, resignation, refusal to act,
	be filled as prescribed by law. An appointee	expulsion, or removal from the county, or
	to fill a vacancy, when succeeding a party	city, for which he shall have been elected,
	member, shall be a member of the same po-	of any person, who shall have been chosen
	litical party as the person last elected to that	as a Delegate, or Senator, or in case of
	office. An appointee shall serve only until the	a tie between two or more such qualified
	next general election held at least ninety	persons, the Governor shall appoint a person
	days after the vacancy occurs. At that elec-	to fill such vacancy from a person whose
	tion the remainder of the term shall be	name shall be submitted to him in writing,
	filled.	within thirty days after the occurrence of
		the vacancy, by the State Central Commit-
		tee of the political party with which the
		Delegate or Senator, so vacating, had been
		affiliated in the County or District from
		which he or she was elected, provided that
		the appointee shall be of the same political
		party as the person whose office is to be
		filled; and it shall be the duty of the
		Governor to make said appointment within
		fifteen days after the submission thereof
		to him. If a name is not submitted by the
		State Central Committee within thirty days
		after the occurrence of the vacancy, the
		Governor within another period of fifteen
		days shall appoint a person, who shall be
		of the same political party as the person
		whose office is to be filled, and who is other-
		wise properly qualified to hold the office
		of Delegate or Senator in the District or
		County. In the event there is no State
		Central Committee in the County or Dis-
		trict from which said vacancy is to be
		filled, the Governor shall within fifteen days
		after the occurrence of such vacancy appoint
		a person who is otherwise properly quali-
		fied to hold the office of Delegate or Senator
		in such District or County. In every case
		when any person is so appointed by the
		Governor, his appointment shall be deemed
		to be for the unexpired term of the person
		whose office has become vacant.

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