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34. The form of certificate given in the preceding section
shall be used for all officers elected by the votes of more than
one county, and for electors of President and Vice President of
the United States; but for Governor the certificates shall be
addressed to the Speaker of the House of Delegates.

35. When an officer is elected by the votes of a single district
of a county, the judges shall certify that the persons voted for
for such office have received the number of votes cast for them
respectively in such district, and that ———— has the greatest
number of votes in the district, and is duly elected.

36. In all cases where a county or city has been, or shall be
divided, for the purpose of forming a district to elect a member
to the Congress of the United States, the judges, in making this
return, shall designate therein that the said district at which
they presided as judges, is part of district No. —, as laid out
by law, to choose a member to represent this State in the Con-
gress of the United States.

37. If, at the time appointed for the assembling of the said
judges, any of them should be prevented from attending, 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
of them.

38. The said judges shall lodge with the clerk of the Circuit
Court of the county, or the clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore city, within five days, or sooner if practicable, from their
meeting as aforesaid, the books of the polls of all the districts in
the county or precincts in the city, together with a certificate
of all the votes given in the said districts or precincts.

39. All returns of elections shall be made in the several
counties to the respective clerks of the Circuit Courts; and in
the city of Baltimore to the clerk of the Superior Court of
that city.

40. All ballots cast at any election, shall be returned by the
said judges on the day of their meeting to the clerks of the said
courts, who shall safely keep the same ifor the space of twelve
months from the day of such return; at which time the said
clerks, in the presence of one or more justices of the Orphans'