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224 and after receiving the ballots announced that Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia had received seven votes and Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana had received one vote for Vice President of the United States: Whereupon the President of the College declared that Henry Gassaway Davis of West Virginia had received seven votes and Charles Warren Fairbanks of Indiana had received one vote the same together comprising the whole Electoral Vote of the State of Maryland. The President of the College then directed the Secretary to prepare the several forms of Certificates for the signature of the Electors which was by the Secretary done in form following: to wit State of Maryland Electoral College Certificate and Return Senate Chamber Annapolis Md Jan 9th 1905 Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that we the undersigned Frank Brown, Charles J. Bonaparte Elihu E. Jackson, John E. George, T. Herbert Shriver James King, Samuel A. Mudd and Ferdinand Williams who have been duly appointed Electors of President and Vice President of the United States of America for the next ensuing term of the respective offices thereof beginning from and after the third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, 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 Edwin Warfield, 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 in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five, at the hour of noon, in the State House in the City of Annapolis, in said State, being the time and place prescribed for such meeting by the laws of the United States and of the State of Maryland, and that we did then proceed to qualify ourselves for our office of Elector by taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution and Laws of our State in the manner required by law, and to organize our Electoral College: |
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