| 1805.
CHAP. 97. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
32. This section has ceased to have any operation
since 1816, ch. 252, (confirmed
by 1817, ch. 149,) whereby the
city of Annapolis constitutes the sixth election
district of Anne Arundel county,
for all elections for sheriffs, electors of president
and vice president, electors
of the senate of this state, and for a member to
congress; which elections are
to be held by the mayor, &c. of the said city. |
Governor & council
to declare certain
elections by
proclamation. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor and
council, on
receiving the returns of the elections aforesaid for electors to
choose a president and vice-president of the United States, and for
members to represent this state in the congress of the United
States, shall enumerate and ascertain the number of votes given
for each and every person voted for as an elector, or member to
congress aforesaid, respectively, and shall thereupon declare, by
proclamation, signed by the governor, the name of the person or
persons duly elected in each respective district, and the governor
and council shall cause such proclamation to be inserted in such
news-papers on the western and eastern shores as they may direct. |
To determine by
lot who shall be
electors of president,
&c. where
two, &c. have an
equal number of
votes. |
34. AND, whereas it may happen that in the
election of the said
electors two or more of the said candidates may have an equal
number of votes. BE IT ENACTED, That in such case the governor
and council shall determine, by lot, from the candidates who shall
have an equal number of votes as aforesaid, who shall be the elector
for the said respective districts. |
Warrant for elections
to fill a vacancy
to go to
sheriff, &c. |
35. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines and
penalties created
and imposed by this act, unless herein otherwise particularly directed
and provided for, shall and may be recovered in the name of
the state, by indictment, in the county court of the county wherein
the same shall accrue, and be applied, one half thereof to the use
of the informer, and the other half to the use of the county, and
it shall be the duty of the clerk of such county to return, annually,
to their levy courts, a list of all fines and penalties recovered by
virtue of this act. |
Fines, &c. to be recovered
by indictment. |
36. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines and
penalties created
and imposed by this act, unless herein otherwise particularly directed
and provided for, shall and may be recovered in the name of
the state, by indictment, in the county court of the county wherein
the same shall accrue, and be applied, one half thereof to the use
of the informer, and the other half to the use of the county, and
it shall be the duty of the clerk of such county to return, annually,
to their levy courts, a list of all fines and penalties recovered by
virtue of this act. |
This act to be given
in charge to
grand juries. |
37. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges of
the different
county courts shall give this act in charge to the grand juries of
their respective counties, at the sitting of the court next after every
election to be held therein. |
| Laws repealed. |
38. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all laws, clauses
and sections of
laws, repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this act,
be and the same are hereby repealed. |
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