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Proceedings of the Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in Maryland, 1789-1980
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State of Maryland:
                    We the Subscribers chosen by the People of
the State of Maryland Electors for the State of Maryland to vote
by ballot for two persons as President and Vice President of the
United States of America according to the directions of the Constitution
of the United States, and the Act of Assembly of this State, in that
case provided, do hereby certify, that in virtue of our appointment,
we met at the City of Annapolis on the fourth day of February, being the
First Wednesday in February, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty nine;
and that on the same day we proceeded to vote and did vote by ballot
for two persons as President and Vice President of the United States of
America; and that upon examining the ballots and counting the votes they
appeared as follows:
    For
                                George Washington Esquire
of the State of Virginia, and late Commander in Chief of the American
Army,
                                                   Six Votes:
    For
                              Robert Hanson Harrison Esquire
of the State of Maryland, and Chief Justice of the same,
                                                    Six Votes:
    We further certify that no other Elector for the State of Maryland
was present at our aforesaid meeting; although Eight
Electors were chosen for the State of Maryland agreeably to the directions
of the said Constitution and Act of Assembly, and that the aforegoing
list contains the names of all the persons voted for at the said meeting.
    Given under our Hands and Seals, at the City of Annapolis, this
fifth day of February, Seventeen Hundred and Eighty nine.
                                                                        J Rogers
                                                                       Wm Tilghman
                                                                        A C Hanson
                                                                        P. Thomas
                                                                        Robert Smith
The Honorable The President of                        W. Matthews
            the Senate of the United States



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