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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
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the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Worcester
County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name
and affix the seal of the said Circuit Court, this
[SEAL.] twenty-second day of November, Anno Domini,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five.
GEO. H. RICHARDSON, (Clerk.
To the Honorable the House of Delegates of Maryland:
The petition of Thomas A Spence, a citizen of Dorchester
County, in the State of Maryland, and eligible to be elected
to, and qualified, under the provisions of the Constitution
of the State, to hold, the office of Circuit Judge of the
Twelfth Judicial Circuit of Maryland, respectfully repre-
sents:
That at an election held in the Counties of Worcester,
Somerset, and Dorchester, comprising the said Circuit; on
Tuesday, the 7th day of November, 1865, for a Circuit
Judge for the said Circuit, and other officers, the judges, at
the close of the said election in Worcester County, did cer-
tify and make returns to his Excellency the Governor of
Maryland, that, at the said election, a certain John R.
Franklin had 1, 029 votes and your petitioner had 633 votes;
and that the judges at the close of said election in Somerset
County, did, in like manner, certify and return that the said
John B. Franklin had 767 votes, and your petitioner had
923 votes; and that the judges at the close of said election
in Dorchester County, did, also, in like manner, certify and
return that the said John R. Franklin had 461 votes and
your petitioner had 632 votes. By which certificates and
returns, it was made to appear to his Excellency, the Gov-
ernor, that the said John B. Franklin had received in the
counties comprising the said Circuit, 2, 257 votes, and that
your petitioner received 2, 188 votes; and so, it appearing to
his Excellency, the Governor, that the said John R. Frank-
lin had received the largest number of votes, he did issue
to him a commission as Circuit Judge of the Twelfth Ju-
dicial Circuit of Maryland. Whereupon, your petitioner,
within thirty days after the state of the polls was publicly
made known by the said judges of election, to-wit: on the
21st day of November last, gave notice to the said John B.
Franklin of the intention of your petitioner to contest his
said election.

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