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238 copied from the original filed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset County, on the twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of record in said office. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name [SEAL.] and affix the seal of the said Circuit Court, tills sixteenth day of January, A. D., eighteen hun- dred and sixty-six. LEVIN WOOLFORD, Clerk. Extract from the Poll Books returned by the Judges of Elec- tion of the Fifth Election District in Somerset County at the Election held on the twelfth and thirteenth of October, 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. Five, do certify and return, that we attended on the twelfth day. of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, at Princess Anne, the place appointed by law for holding the election within said district, and did then and there appoint Levin Handy and Isaac Gibbons Clerks, of the Election, who severally qualified as directed by law. We further certify that we did then'and there before Edward F. Duer, a Justice of the Peace of said county, qualify as Judges of the Election as by law directed, and then and there, at the hour of 8 o'clock in the morning, open the polls for an election for the pur- pose of expressing the sense of the people upon the adoption or rejection of the new Constitution and form of Government for the State of Maryland; that we continued the polls 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 bal- lot-box opened, and the ballots publicly counted; when it appeared that there were eighteen ballots cast " for the Con- stitution," and that there were two hundred and seventy- three ballots cast " against the Constitution" at said election. We further certify, that the oath required by the Constitu- tion submitted for adoption or rejection to the voters, was |
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