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154 The ballots of the Electors were deposited in the ballot box which was delivered to Messs. McNulty & Hopkins who on counting the ballots reported that Eight ballots had been cast and that all of them were for William H. English of Indiana for Vice President of the United States and that no other person had been voted for. Whereupon it was declared that William H. English of Indiana had received Eight votes for Vice President of the United States from and after the third day of March next ensuing being the whole number to which the State of Maryland is entitled. On motion of Mr. Welsh the Secretary was directed to prepare the usual forms of Certificates for the signatures of the Electors. Whereupon the Secretary prepared the following Certificates to wit. It is hereby certified and made known that we the undersigned being Electors of President and Vice President of the United States duly appointed by the State of Maryland at an election held in said State on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in the year Eighteen hundred and Eighty met at the State House in the City of Annapolis (the same being the place in said State of Maryland directed by the laws of said state) in the first day of December in said last mentioned year and having received from the Hon. William T. Hamilton Governor of said State of Maryland three lists of the names of the Electors of said State of Maryland duly certified, one of which is appended to the lists four respective votes annexed hereto proceeded at the hour of noon on said day to vote for a person as President of the United States and a person as Vice President of the United States naming in each distinct ballots by us so respectively voted the person |
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