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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
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248
Extract from the Poll Books Returned by the Judges of Elec-
tion of the Eleventh Election District of Somerset County,
at the Election held on the twelfth and thirteenth of Oc-
tober, 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, Judge's of Election
in District No. 11, do certify and return that we attended,
on the twelfth and thirteenth days of October, eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-four, at Fairmount, Potato Neck, the place
appointed by law for holding the election within said district,
and did then and there appoint Tubman L. Hall and John
W. Davy Clerks of the Election, who severally qualified, as
directed by law. We further certify that we did then and
there, before William Dorsey, a Justice of the Peace of said
county, quality as Judges of the Election as by law directed,
and then and there, at the hour of eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, open the polls for an election for the purpose of express-
ing the sense of the people on 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 eve-
ning of the same day, when they were closed, the ballot-box
opened, and the ballots publicly counted, when it appeared
that there were "For the Constitution," fifty-one votes, (51.)
"Against the Constitution," eighty-six votes, (86.)
GEORGE DAVY, )
EDWARD K. MILES, Judges.
JOSIAH W. PURNELL,}
TUBMAN L. HALL, ) Clerks
JOHN W. DAVY,
STATE OF MARYLAND, Somerset County, set:
I hereby certify that the within is a true extract from the
poll books, returned by the Judges of Election of the eleventh
district of Somerset county, at the election held on the twelfth
and thirteenth days of October, A. D. 1864.

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