CERTIFICATE

OF THE RETURN OF THE JUDGES OF ELECTION
IN ALLEGANY COUNTY.

To the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County:

WHEREAS an election for Comptroller of the Treasury of
the State of Maryland, one member of the House of Represen-
tatives in the Congress of the United States, for the Fourth
Congressional District of Maryland; one Senator for Alle-
gany county, in the State Senate, and five members of the
House of Delegates; was held on the first Tuesday succeed-
ing the first Monday of November, being the sixth day of
said month, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in
the several election districts in the said Allegany county, dis-
tinguished by numbers from No. (1) one to No. (16) sixteen
inclusive, conformably to the Constitution and Laws of this
State; and whereas, we, the subscribers, attending Judges at
the close of the election in said districts, having this day as-
sembled at the usual place of the sitting of the Circuit Court
for said county, with the books of the polls, on which are en-
dorsed the several certificates agreably to law, and having
cast up the whole number of votes given in said districts ac-
cording to the certificates made out on the day of election by
the judges, it appears that Col. Robert Bruce had twenty-
four hundred and ten votes, for Comptroller, Col. William
J. Leonard had twenty-two hundred and ninety-two (2,292)
votes, for Comptroller; Francis Thomas had twenty-three
hundred and seventy-six (2,376) votes, for Representative in
Congress, Col. William P. Maulsby had twenty-three hun-
dred and eight votes, for Representative in Congress; Charles
H. Ohr had twenty-three hundred and thirty-seven (2,337)
votes for Senator, Alfred Spates had twenty-three hundred
and twenty-five (2,325) votes for Senator; William R. Mc-
Culley had twenty-three hundred and ninety-nine (2,399)
votes, for the House of Delegate, Charles Gilpin had twenty-
three hundred and eighty (2,880) votes, for the House of
Delegates, Samuel M. Haller had twenty-three hundred and
fifty-nine (2,359) votes, for the House of Delegates, Daniel C.
Bruce had twenty-three hundred and ninety-six (2,396) votes,
for the House of Delegated, William A. Falkenstine had
twenty-three hundred and five votes, for the House of Dele-