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to the Act of Congress 1792 ch. 109.
                The said certificates were then duly signed and sealed
by the Electors as were also the lists agreeably to the aforegoing
Form.  They were then folded and sealed and addressed to the
President of the Senate of the United States:  Washington
with the following memorandum on each certificate to
each of which each Elector attached his name " certificate
of the Election of President and Vice President of the United
States of America in and for the State of Maryland
December 1st 1852" Whereupon the President delivered
one of the said certificates to John Parran (one of the Electors)
to be by him deposited in the Post office in the City of
Annapolis, and one other of the said certificates to Charles
J. M. Gwinn (another of the Electors) to be conveyed and
delivered by him to the Judge of the District Court of the
United States for the District of Maryland.
On motion of Mr. McLane
The following form of credential was read and adopted
and the blank filled with the name of Jonathan
Pinkney.
            State of Maryland Towit
                                        To all persons whom it may
concern, Know ye that we the Electors of President and
Vice President of the United States of America duly
Elected in and for the State of Maryland having met at
the City of Annapolis on the day prescribed by the Constitution
and laws of the United States to perform the
trust reposed in us and having voted and made out
in due form certificates and lists of the voted given and
the persons voted for and having confidence in.
                Esquire of the City of Annapolis have appointed
and by these presents do appoint and authorise him to
take charge of one of said certificates and lists and with
all convenient despatch to convey and deliver the same
to the President of the Senate of the United States at
Washington.  In witness whereof we have hereto set
our hands and seals this first day of December in the
year Eighteen hundred and fifty two.


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