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Proceedings of the Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in Maryland, 1789-1980
Volume 208, Page 185   View pdf image (33K)
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                            Proceedings of Electors
                                          of
President and Vice President of the United States in and for the
State of Maryland.

On the first Wednesday of December being the third day of said
month in the year Eighteen hundred and Eighty four the day appointed
by the Constitution and Laws of the United States on which the Electors
of President and Vice President of the United States of America are
directed to assemble and perform the trust reposed in them here appeared
at the hour of Noon in the Senate Chamber in the State House in the City 
of Annapolis (The time and place designated
by Acts of Assembly for the meeting of said Electors) the following
gentlemen who had been proclaimed by the Executive Authority of the
State to have been duly elected Elector of President and Vice President
of the United States in and for the State of Maryland To Wit.
                                General Bradley T. Johnson
                                            Thomas I. Keating        at Large
                                            Clement Sulivane
                                            Patrick H. Walker
                                            Harry E. Mann
                                            Skipwith Wilmer
                                            Henry F. Spalding
                                            Henry H. Keedy.

The said Electors severally qualified before Sprigg Harwood Esq. Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County by taking the Oath prescribed
by the Constitution to be taken by all Civil Officers.
On motion by Skipwith Wilmer Esq.
                                                        General Bradley T. Johnson of
Baltimore County was unanimously chosen President of the College.
                                                        General Johnson took the chair
and addressed the Electors as follows.
                                                        Gentlemen of the Electoral College
of Maryland:  I thank you for the Compliment you have paid me in selecting
me for this honorable position honorable for being the head of the electoral college,
and honored by the long line of distinguished Marylanders who have preceded
me since 1789.  I am more impressed with the occasion and the place because in
this Chamber the initial steps were taken which resulted in the formation of the
Constitution of the United States, and also because the federal electoral
College was borrowed from and modeled upon the Senatorial electoral College


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