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1828.
49. To the Honorable the President of the Senate of the United States of America. We, the undersigned the Electors of duly appointed by the State of Maryland to elect the President and Vice President of the United States of America do hereby certify that on the First Wednesday in December, in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight, are met at the City of Annapolis, the place where by the Law of the State of Maryland the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, on the part of the State of Maryland are directed to meet to perform the trust reposed in them; and that we did then and there vote by district ballots, in which were named the person voted for as President and the person voted for as Vice President of the United States of America. On examination of the ballots it appeared that John Quincy Adams of the State of Massachusetts had six votes as President of the United States of America, and that Andrew Jackson of the State of Tennessee had five votes as President of the United States of America; and that Richard Rush of the State of Pennsylvania had six votes as Vice President of the United States of America and that John C. Calhoun, of the State of South Carolina had five votes as Vice President of the United States of America. The said persons are therefore returned by as the Electors of the State of Maryland as having obtained the aforesaid number of votes. The evidence of the Authority under which the undersigned have acted is hereto annexed, being one of the lists of the names of the Electors of the said State made, certified and delivered to us by the Executive Authority of the said State on this First Wednesday aforesaid. Done at the City of Annapolis on the First Wednesday in December, being the third day of the said Month in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight. In Witness whereof we have hereunto respectively subscribed our Hands and affixed our Seals. Littleton Dennis President of the College Henry Brawner |
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