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Extiact from the Poll Books returned by the Judges of Elec- tion of the Fifteenth Election District of Somerset County at the Election held- on the twelfth and thirteenth of Octo- ber, A. D. 1864. STATE OF MARYLAND, Somerset County, to wit: We, the undersigned, duly appointed by the Commission ers of said county in due form of law, Judges of Election in District No. Fifteen, do certify and return, then, we attended on the twelfth day of October, eighteen hundred and i; ixty- four at Rider's office, the place appointed by law for holding the election within said- district, and did then and theme ap- poin; Samuel Webster and Michael Webster, Clerks of the Election, who severally qualified as directed 'by law. We further certify that we did then and there, before a Ji.stice of the Peace of said county, qualify as Judges of Election as by law directed, and then and there, at the hour of eight o'clock in the morning open the polls for an election for the purpose of expressing the sense of the people upon the adoption or rejection of the New Constitute on and form of Government for the State of Maryland, that we contin- ued them open until five o'clock in the evening of the same day when we adjourned until eight o'clock A. M. of the next day; that we again opened the polls at eight o'clock on the morning of the next day, and continued them open until five /o'clock in the evening of the same day, when they were closed, the ballot-box opened, and the ballots publicly counted; when it appeared that " For the Constitution" received thirty-eight votes; "Against the Contitution" re- ceived. sixty-eight votes. We also certify that; we adminis- tered the'oath to all who voted, except William Damarell, who refused to take it. THOMAS BRADSHAW, ) NOAH WEBSTER, > Judges. CYRUS L. JONES, ) MICHAEL WEBSTER, ) , ( Clerks SAMUEL WEBSTER,) |
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