testimony in such cases shall be the same as those which regulate the taking of testimony in contested-election cases cognizable by the House of Delegates.

122. If either party shall deem himself aggrieved by the decision of any of the circuit courts or the Superior Court of Baltimore city, in cases of contested elections, he shall have a right of appeal to the Court of Appeals as in other cases, said appeal to be taken within five days from the date of the decision complained of, and shall be heard and decided by the Court of Appeals as soon after the transmission of the record as may be practicable, and the testimony taken in such cases shall be sent up to the Court of Appeals as part of the record.

123. The party intending to contest an election for the Senate or House of Delegates, shall give notice of such intention to the person elected, or, in case of a tie vote, to the person against whom the contest is to be instituted, within thirty days after the judges of election shall have made known publicly the state of the polls, unless at a special election to fill a vacancy, when such notice shall be given within ten days after the state of the polls is announced by the judges of election.

121. Such notice shall be delivered in writing, at the usual residence of the person returned; and if he be absent, shall be left there.

125. The party intending to make examinations shall, after such notice, apply to some justice of the peace of the county or city wherein the election is contested, and shall obtain a notice under his hand and seal, directed to the opposite party, requiring him to attend, in person or by attorney, and cross-examine witnesses.

126. The justice, in such cases, shall have the usual power to coerce the attendance of witnesses.

127. The notice of the justice shall contain the names of the witnesses, with the facts expected to be proved by them, and shall state the time and place of examination, and shall be served on the opposite party or his attorney at least ten days previous to the proposed examination.

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of the notices and prodid servare of them up by the justice who to them, and transmitted to the presiding officer of the body in vi. the seat is etested.

130. The examination of witnesses, then in the målber herein prescribed, and i no other, shall hereafter be admitted on trial of enztested Elent, ons.

131. The copies of any papers recorded in any office of record, attested under the hand and seal of the recording officer, shall be admitted at all sub trial- in the same inanner as the originals would be if y roduced.

132. The copies of any other papers of a public nature, and remaining in possession of a publierer and extracts from the poll-books under the hand and seal of the clerk of the court or public ce they are deposited, shall be admitted as evidence.

133. The Board of Police Commissioners in the city of Baltimore, and the clerk of the Circuit Court in the counties, to whom ballots have been returned under the provisions of this article, shall produce any of such ballots in regard to which testimony may be proposed to be taken before a justice of the peace taking examinations in a contested election, and shall furnish said justice copies of the same, only on an order first had and obtained from some one of the courts of Baltimore city, or of the circuit courts for the counties, or some one of the judges thereof, and then in pursuance of the terms and conditions of said order, and subject to its restrictions; and said Police Commissioners of Baltimore city, and said clerks, as the case may be, shall retain such ballots in possession and custody until such ballots shall be required by the order of the court having juris. diction in the case to be delivered to said court, or by order

of the Senate or House of Delegates, in whichever the seat is contested.

134. The justice before whom such depositions shall be taken shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars for every day he may be engaged in the examination of witnesses, and the witnesses shall be entitled to the usual allowance for their attendance before a justice of the peace, to be paid by the party on whose behalf such examination is held and said witnesses are summoned.

135. No person contesting a seat of any one who has been regularly returned by the judges of election, as elected to a seat in the Senate or House of Delegates, shall be allowed any per diem mileage, or other pay, unless the party so contesting shall establish his right to such seat.

ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-
PRESIDENT.

136. On the first Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, preceding the time fixed by law of the United States, for choice of President and Vice-President of the United States, there shall be elected, by general ticket, as many electors of President and Vice-President as this State shall be entitled to appoint.

137.

Each citizen of this State entitled to vote for delegates to the General Assembly shall have the right to vote for the whole number of electors; and the several persons, to the number required to be chosen, having the highest number of votes, shall be declared and deemed duly appointed electors.

138. If any of the persons voted for as electors shall have an equal number of votes, so as to defeat a choice between them, the Governor shall determine by lot which of the persons having such equal number of votes shall be electors, so as to complete the whole number to which the State shall be entitled.

139. The said election shall, in all respects, be conducted as other elections, and the returns thereof made and canvassed as hereinbefore directed.

140. 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 the rights and privileges of those proclaimed by the Governor as duly elected electors. of President and Vice-President of the United States.

141. The electors for this State shall meet in the State House, in the city of Annapolis, and give their votes for President and Vice-President of the United States at the hour of noon upon the first Wednesday in December in the year in which they are appointed.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

142. The Senators chosen to represent this State in the Senate of the United States shall be elected by the joint ballot of both branches of the Legislature, and the person qualified as the Constitution of the United States directs, having a majority of votes of all the attending members in both branches of the Legislature, shall be declared duly elected. One of the Senators shall always be an inhabitant of the Eastern Shore and the other of the Western Shore of this State.

143. The commission of such Senator shall be granted and executed in the form and manner heretofore in use.

REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.

Elections of representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November every two years, commencing in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and taking place every second year thereafter.

145. If a vacancy should occur by death, resignation or otherwise, at such a period as to make it necessary that a representative or representatives in Congress from this State should be chosen before the regular time for such election, the Governor shall, by proclamation, direct that a special election be held to fill such vacancy; which proclamation shall require at least twenty days' notice of such election to be given by the Supervisors of Elections of the respective counties or city of Baltimore, composing the Congressional district in which such vacancy may exist.

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

146. This State shall be divided into six districts for the choosing of six representatives in the Congress of the United States, which will be numbered respectively from one to six.

The first Congressional district shall be composed of Worcester county, Somerset county, Wicomico county, Dorchester county, Talbot county, Queen Anne's county, Caroline county and Kent county, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives.

148. The second Congressional district shall be composed of the ninth precinct of the eleventh ward and of the twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second wards of Baltimore city, of Cecil county, Harford county, Carroll county, and the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth election districts of Baltimore county, and said counties and election districts and wards shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives.

149. The third Congressional district shall be composed of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, fifteenth and sixteenth wards of Baltimore city, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives.

150. The fourth Congressional district shall be composed of the eighth, ninth, tenth, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth wards and the first eight precincts of the eleventh ward of Baltimore city, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives.