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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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                                                        1789                                            7

    VIII.  And be it enacted, that after the Polls in the several Counties, and the
City of Annapolis, and Baltimore Town shall be closed, and the votes
cast up by the Judges, in the presence of the Justices attending for the preservation
of the Peace, the names of the several persons voted for in the
several Counties, and City of Annapolis and Baltimore Town shall be
written on parchment, or paper, and the number of votes for each candidate
in the several Counties, the City of Annapolis and Baltimore
Town, enumerated and set down, which number shall be written in
words at length, and not in figure, and the Polls and other papers relating
to the Elections shall be sealed up and deposited with the Clerks
of the several County Courts, and on such numbers and names, being so set
down and written, the Judges of the several Elections in the City of Annapolis,
Baltimore Town, and each and every County of this State, when
assembled at the time and place for holding elections, shall respectively,
within the space of three days after the said elections, sign and seal the
papers or instruments, on which the same are so written, and shall make and
sign seal and execute duplicate returns thereof, on whereof shall be delivered
to the Clerk of the County to be kept safely, and the other copy
thereof shall be sealed up and delivered, or safely transmitted by
the sheriff of the proper County, within ten days after each respective
election, under the penalty of fifty pounds, current money, to the Governor
and Council for their inspections and examinations; and the Governor
and Council, after having received the returns, papers and instruments
aforesaid, shall enumerate and ascertain the number of votes for
each and every candidate, and person so as aforesaid chosen as Representatives
or Electors, respectively, and shall thereupon declare by
Proclamation, signed by the Governor and, without delay, dispersed
through the State, the names of the six persons duly elected as Electors;
and the Governor and Council shall as soon as conveniently may
be after such examination and declaration, transmit a certificate
of the Election of the Representatives, under the seal of the State
to the Secretary of the United States in Congress assembled, to be by him
delivered to the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United
States, when they shall be assembled at the time and place by the
present Congress of the United States divided directed and fixed on.
    IX.  And be it enacted, that the said elections shall be free and
made viva voce.
    X.  And be it enacted, that the Electors, so as aforesaid chosen, shall
assemble on the first Wednesday in February next at the City of Annapolis,
and shall perform the duties enjoined upon them by the
said Constitution for the United States agreeably to the directions thereof.


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