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168 1889. Proceedings of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States in and for the State of Maryland. On the Second Monday of January, being the fourteenth day of said month in the year Eighteen hundred and Eighty-nine, 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, there 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 fore the meeting of said Electors) the following gentlemen who had been proclaimed by the Executive Authority of the State to have been duly elected Electors of President and Vice President of the United States in and for the State of Maryland; To Wit: James Hodges Henry Page At large William Scott Roberts James P. Berret Willoughby N. Smith Isaac Gorham Moale Robert C. Combs Hattersly W. Talbott 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 Mr. Hodges Mr. James P. Berret was unanimously chosen President of the College. And was escorted to the Chair by Messrs. Page and Talbott. And addressed the Electors. On motion by Mr. Roberts. Capt. W. G. Purnell Secretary of the Maryland Senate was Elected Secretary. On motion by Mr. Page A Committee of two was appointed to wait upon the Governor and inform him of the organization of the College. |
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