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135 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 in 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 the 23 1868. Whereupon the President delivered one of the said certificates to Hon. John Thomson Mason (one of the Electors) to be by him deposited in the Post office for the City of Annapolis and one other of the said certificates to Geo. M. Gill Esq. (another of the Electors) to be by him conveyed and delivered to the Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. On motion of Mr. Constable the following form of Credential was read and adopted. And On motion of Mr. Roberts the blank was filled with the name of the Hon. Henry Clay Dallam of Baltimore City. State of Maryland to Wit; To all persons whom it may concerned. 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 Henry Clay Dallam of Baltimore City have appointed and by these presents do appoint and authorize 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 Witness whereof we hereunto set our hands and seals this second day of December Eighteen hundred and sixty Eight. |
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