CHAPTER 101.

ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.

AN ACT to Amend Chapter 63 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware relative to the Election of United States Senators.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 63 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware be, and the same is hereby amended by the repeal of 1890, Section 3 and 1891, Section 4 and the insertion in lieu thereof of the following section to be styled 1890, Section 3.

1890, Section 3. Whenever a vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise, in the office of Senator from this State in the Senate of the United States, the Governor may make a temporary or ad interim appointment from among the qualified electors of this State of some person to fill such vacancy until the same shall be filled at the next ensuing general election in the manner prescribed by law. The office of such temporary appointee shall terminate upon the election, under the provisions of this chapter, of a Senator from this State in the Senate of the United States to fill said vacancy.

Approved March 12, A. D. 1915.