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1860 List of the Person voted for as Vice President of the United States of America by the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States in and for the State of Maryland. Joseph Lane of the State of Oregon received Eight votes for Vice President of the United States of America. We hereby certify that the above is a true list of the Person voted for by the Electors of President and Vice President of the United Sates in and for the State of Maryland and of the number of votes by him received. Witness our hands and seals this Fifth day of December Eighteen hundred and sixty. To the three certificates prepared by the Secretary agreeably to the aforegoing Form, the Secretary attached severally one of the certificates furnished by the Executive authority of this State, in obedience to the act of Congress 1792, chap. 109. The said certificates were then 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 fifth 1860. Whereupon the President delivered one of the certificates and Lists, prepared signed and sealed addressed and endorsed as aforesaid, to James T. Franklin (one of the Electors) to be by him deposited in the Post Office in the City of Annapolis, also one other of the said certificates and Lists to Joshua Vansant, (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. The following form of credentials was read and adopted and on motion of Mr. Ritchie the blank filled with the name of William Byrn. State of Maryland Towit. To all persons whom it may concern. |
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