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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
16. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where a
county has
been or shall be divided, for the purpose of forming a district to
elect a member or members to the congress of the United States, or
to elect an elector or electors to choose the president and vice-president
of the United States, the judges, in making the return aforesaid,
shall designate therein, that the said districts, at which they
presided as judges, are part of district No. _____, as laid out by law
to choose a member to represent this state in the congress of the
United States, or are part of district No. _____, as laid out by law to
elect electors to choose the president and vice-president of the
United States, (as the case may require.) |
1805.
CHAP. 97.
Where a county
is divided to form
a district, &c.
judges to designate
the district,
&c. |
17. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if at the time
appointed for the
assembling of the said judges, any of them should be prevented
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. |
Presiding judges
may adjourn. |
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. |
Judges to lodge
books of the polls
with the clerk of
the county, and
enclose one of
their certificates
to governor and
council, &c. |
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 delivered to the chancellor. |
Certain returns to
be enclosed to governor
& council,
addressed to the
chancellor. |
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 aforesaid, 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. |
County clerk to
transmit a copy of
certificate to governor
& council. |
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 constitution of the United States, and the laws
made in pursuance thereof. |
Electors of president
and vice president,
when to
assemble, &c. |
22. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for all elections
for representatives
to serve in the house of representatives of the United States, |
Baltimore divided
into eight wards,
&c.—Who are to
be judges of the
elections, &c. |
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