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182 Mr. Hannibal nominated Adlai E. Stevenson of the State of Illinois for said term. The President appointed as tellers Messrs Bowie and Baker The ballots of the Electors were deposited in a ballot box which had been delivered to Messrs Bowie and Baker who on counting the ballots reported, that eight votes had been cast and that all of them were for Adlai E. Stevenson of the State of Illinois for Vice President of the United States, and that no other person had been voted for. Whereupon It was declared by the Chair that Adlai E. Stevenson of the State of Illinois 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 of votes to which the State of Maryland is entitled. The President then directed the Secretary to prepare the several forms of the certificates for the signatures of the Electors. Whereupon the Secretary prepared the following form of certificates, to wit: State of Maryland Electoral College Certificate and Return Senate Chamber Annapolis Md January 9th 1893 Be it remembered and it is hereby certified, that we the undersigned John Lee Carroll, Alonzo L. Miles, William Massey, Frederick William Baker, John Hannibal, Charles Ridgely Goodwin, Abram Claude and William Viers Bowie Jr. who have been duly appointed Electors of President and Vice President of the United States of America for the next ensuing regular term of the respective offices thereof, beginning from and after the third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety three, being Electors duly appointed by the State of Maryland in the manner directed by the Legislature of said State, as will appear by the Certificate of the Honorable Frank Brown the Governor of Maryland, under the Great Seal of the State, hereto annexed. Did meet on the second Monday being the ninth day of January |
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