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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1805.

as laid out by law to elect electors to choose the president and
vice-president of the United States, (as the case may require.)
See note to the 3d section.

Presiding
judges may

adjourn.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That if at the time appointed for
the assembling of the said judges, any of them should be pre-
vented from attending, in such case the judge or judges who
shall attend, may adjourn from day to day, until the judges
required to meet shall all assemble, immediately after which
they shall proceed to perform the duties required as aforesaid.

Judges to
lodge books
of the polls
with the
clerk of the
county, and
enclose one
of their
certificates
to governor
and council,
&c.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That the judges aforesaid shall
respectively lodge with the clerk of the county, within one day
from their meeting as aforesaid, the books of the polls of all the
districts in said county, together with a certificate of all the
votes given in the said districts; and the said judges shall also,
within the time aforesaid, cause one other certificate, made out
by them as aforesaid, to be enclosed, sealed up, and directed to
the governor and council, endorsed on public service, and placed
in the post-office at the place of meeting as aforesaid, in case
there shall be a post-office there, and if none there, then in the
next convenient post-office thereto, to be transmitted to the
governor and council.
The council of the governor is abolished under the recent amendments
to the constitution.

Certain
returns to
be enclosed
to governor
and council,
addressed
to the
chancellor.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That in case of elections for
delegates to the general assembly, or for electors of the senate,
the said judges shall cause the return, directed, enclosed, and
transmitted as aforesaid to the governor and council, to be
addressed to the chancellor of Maryland, to be by them deli-
vered to the chancellor.

County
clerk to
transmit a
copy of
certificate
to governor
and council.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the said respective county
clerks, with whom the said certificates and polls are lodged,
shall, under the penalty of one hundred dollars, make out a true
copy of the said certificate, lodged with him by the judges afore-
said, of all the votes, under the seal of his office, within five
days after the same shall be as aforesaid deposited, and the
same, when made out, enclose and seal up, directed to the
governor and council, endorsed on public service, to be by the
said clerk, within the time last mentioned, placed in the post-
office aforesaid, to be transmitted as aforesaid.

Electors of
president
and vice-
president,
when to
assemble,
&c.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted. That the electors of president
and vice-president aforesaid, to be elected as aforesaid, shall
assemble on the first Wednesday of December, in the year
eighteen hundred and eight, and on the same day in every
fourth year thereafter, unless the congress of the United States
should by law otherwise direct, and in that event, on the day
thereby directed, at the city of Annapolis, and shall then and
there perform the duties enjoined upon them by the constitu-