HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1327

each and every ballot in the State convention with respect to
the instruction and the votes in the national convention of the
delegates sent from Maryland by such State convention to the
national convention for President in accordance with the in-
structions received from the voters in each of the several coun-
ties and legislative districts as certified in their credentials
by the respective Supervisors of Elections of said counties and
legislative districts, respectively, and such delegates from each
of said counties and legislative districts shall continue so to
vote in the State convention for the choice of their several
counties and legislative districts as aforesaid, as long as in
their conscientious judgment there is any possibility of said
choice obtaining a majority of the votes of the State conven-
tion and as long as said choice is voted for by the delegates of
any nine counties of Maryland in said convention, any legis-
lative district of Baltimore City to be taken and considered
for such purpose as the equivalent of a county.

After taking such numbers of ballots in said State convention
as may be necessary to show or ascertain a majority of said
entire State convention for any one candidate for President
the chairman of said convention shall announce that the person
so receiving such majority of the votes of all the delegates in
said State convention for President has been chosen by the
voters of the party holding such State convention of the State
of Maryland as their choice for candidate for President in
the national convention for such political party, and all the
delegates of such party selected by such State convention to
the national convention of such party from the State of Mary-
land shall be instructed and bound to vote as a unit in the
national convention for such candidate for President so se-
lected as the choice of the State of Maryland as aforesaid, and
such delegates shall continue to vote in such national conven-
tion for the choice of the State of Maryland, as aforesaid, for
President as long as in their conscientious judgment there is
any possibility of his being nominated.

(8) The delegates from the several counties of the State and
legislative districts of Baltimore City to the State convention
held to select and deputize delegates from Maryland of said
several political parties to their respective national conven-
tions shall be elected by the direct vote of the qualified voters
of each of said political parties in each of said counties and
legislative districts in the manner prescribed by this sub-title:
for the nomination of candidates for public office and delegates
to conventions in primary election by the direct vote.

The State convention of each of said parties elected as afore-,
said shall select the delegates to the national convention and
nominate candidates for Presidential electors of each of said
parties in such manner as said State convention may determine,