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Proceedings of the Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in Maryland, 1789-1980
Volume 208, Page 111   View pdf image (33K)
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                                    1856.                                    111

which were for Andrew Jackson Donalson.
        Whereupon it was declared that Andrew Jackson
Donalson of the State of Tennessee had received eight
votes for Vice President of the United States of America
from and after the Third day of March next ensuing being
the whole number to which the State of Maryland is
entitled.
        A sealed communication was received from his Excellency
Governor Ligon by the hands of N. Cox Esq. Secretary
of  State covering three certificates of the election of the
Electors which was read and ordered to lie on the table.
        On motion of Mr. Swann the Secretary was directed
to prepare the usual forms of certificates for the signatures
of the Electors.
        Whereupon the Secretary prepared those several certificates
agreeably to the following form.
        To the Honourable the President of the Senate of the
United States of America.
        We the undersigned duly elected Electors of President
and Vice President of the United States of America in and
for the State of Maryland (as will appear by reference to
the annexed Document being the Certificate furnished by
    and an abstract from the proceedings of the Elector
the Executive authority of the State of Maryland.) do hereby
certify that on the first Wednesday in December in the
year eighteen hundred and fifty six, we met at the City
of Annapolis in the said State being the place where by
the laws of the State of Maryland the Electors of President
and Vice President of the United States on the part of
the said State are directed to meet and perform the trust
reposed in then and that then and there having been duly
qualified and organized Millard Fillmore of the State
of New York was put in nomination for President of the
United States of America for four years from and after
the third day of March next ensuing that we then and
there in pursuance to the Constitution and laws of the
United States proceeded to vote by ballots for the President
of the United States of America, an don counting the ballots
it was ascertained that Millard Fillmore of the State of
New York received eight votes for President of the United
States of America, that then and there Andrew Jackson
Donalson of the State of Tennessee was put in nomination
for Vice President of the United States of America.


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