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1860.
121 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 votes given and the persons voted for and having confidence in ___________________ Esquire of the City of Baltimore 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 dispatch to convey and deliver the same to the President of the Senate of the United States at Washington. In Testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals this fifth day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and sixty. The said credential was accordingly prepared in due form by the Secretary and signed and sealed by the Electors. Whereupon the President delivered it with the other (the third, Electoral certificate to William Byrn with direction to convey it with all convenient despatch before the first Wednesday in January next ensuing to the President of the Senate of the United States at Washington, and in the event of there being no President of the Senate as aforesaid for him to deposit the same safely in the office of the Secretary of State at Washington. On motion of Mr. Franklin it was resolved unanimously (the Secretary putting the question that the thanks of this Electoral College are tendered to the President thereof for the able and dignified manner in which he has presided over its deliberating. On motion of Mr. Franklin it was resolved unanimously that the thanks of this Electoral College are tendered to the officers of the College for the faithful manner in which they discharged their duties. On motion of Mr. Franklin the Secretary was directed to record and attest the proceedings of the Electoral College. On motion of Mr. Martin the Electors adjourned sine die Attest Jonathan Pinkney Secy. |
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