1896, ch. 202. 135. No person contesting the 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. Ibid. 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 tickets as many electors of President and Vice-President as this State shall be entitled to appoint. Ibid. 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. Ibid. 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. Ibid. 139. The said election shall in all respects be conducted as other elections, and the returns thereof made and canvassed, as herein before directed. Ibid. 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. 1896, ch. 202. 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. Representatives in Congress. Ibid. 142. 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. Ibid. 143. 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 to the sheriffs of the respective counties or city of Baltimore, comprising the congressional district in which such vacancy may exist. Congressional Districts. Ibid. 144. This State shall be divided into six districts for the 1902 choosing of six repesentatives in the Congress of the United ch 136 States, which will be numbered, respectively, from one to six. 1902 Ch.136 1902 ch.136 1902 ch.136 1402 Ch.136 1962 1896, ch. 202. 145. The first congressional district shall be composed of Worcester county, Somerset county, Wicomico county, Dorches ter 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. 1898, ch. 388. 146. The second congressional district shall be composed of the twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth wards of Baltimore city, of Cecil county, Harford county, Carroll county, and the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth and fifteenth election districts of Baltimore county, and said counties and election disiricts and wards shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives. Ibid. 147. The third congressional district shall be composed of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth wards of Baltimore city, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives. Ibid. 148. The fourth congressional district shall be composed of the tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-second wards of Baltimore city, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives. Ibid. 149. The fifth congressional district shall be composed of St. ch 136. Mary's county, Charles county, Calvert county, Prince George's county, Anne Arundel county, including the city of Annapolis, Howard county, the first and thirteenth election districts of Baltimore county, and the twenty-third and twenty-fourth wards of Baltimore city, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives. 1896, ch. 202. 150. The sixth congressional district shall be composed of Allegany county, Garrett county, Washington county, Frederick county, and Montgomery county, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives. Ibid. 151. The judges of the election districts of Baltimore county forming part of the second congressional district, shall make a return separate from that to be made by the judges of the remaining districts of said county, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore city, composing the third congressional district, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore city, composing the fourth congressional district, shall respectively make separate returns, and separate returns shall in like manner be made by the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a part of the second congressional district, and also by the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a part of the fifth congressional district. Ibid. 152. This article shall take effect from and after the date of its passage, and all public general laws or public local laws or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this article are hereby repealed; provided, that every offense which has been or shall have been wholly or partly committed against any of said public general or public local laws or parts thereof before this article goes into operation, shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, determined and punished; and any penalty in respect to any such offense shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine shall be imposed, enforced or recovered in the same manner as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and no case pending shall abate, by reason of such repeal, and every act duly done and every warrant or other instrument duly issued, made or granted before this article comes into operation, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that any right, liability, privileges and protection in respect to any matter or thing committed or done before this article comes into operation, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and every action, prosecution or other proceeding which shall have commenced before this article comes into operation. or shall thereafter be commenced in respect to any such matter or thing done before this article comes into operation, may be prosecuted, continued and defended in the same manner as if said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that nothing in this article shall be construed to repeal any provisions of the existing laws applicable to the city of Baltimore for the prevention of the sale or dispensing of any liquor or for the preservation of peace and order therein on any election_day. 152-3.44 adood 1802ch. 296 (Pr (Primary Election) 1. The owner or occupant of any enclosure who may find any horse, hog, sheep, cow or any other domestic animal, the owner of which is not known, trespassing upon the said enclosed premises, shall immediately, or within a reasonable time thereafter, cause a notice to be inserted in some newspaper published in the county where such estray is taken containing a description of the same, and the location of the enclosure upon which such estray was taken, and the name of the owner or occupant thereof, and cause written or printed copies of such notice to be set up in not less than three public places in the neighborhood. Ibid. 2. If there be no newpaper published in the county where such estray shall have been taken up, or if the value |