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ings be determined by a majority of the canvassers so attending. All
the sessions, deliberations and proceedings of the board shall be public
and the candidates and their counsel shall have the right to attend and
to inspect the original statements and returns, and all other documents
and records.

See notes to sec. 84.

1904, art. 33, sec. 80. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 75. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 80.

82. The board of canvassers shall, upon being duly organized, open
all the original statements or returns and tally-sheets delivered or trans-
mitted to them, and shall canvass and add up the votes and make
abstracts or statements thereof in the following manner, as the case
may require, namely: All votes for governor shall be written out in
words at length on one sheet, and, in like manner, all votes for other
State officers on another sheet; all votes for presidential electors on
another sheet; all votes for representatives in congress on another sheet;
all votes for judges of courts on another sheet; all votes for the clerk
of the court of appeals on another sheet; all votes for senators and
delegates to the general assembly on another sheet; all votes for county
or city officers on another sheet; and all votes for any other officers
on a separate and appropriate sheet; all votes for or against any propo-
sition which may be submitted to a vote of the people on another sheet.
See notes to sec. 84.

Ibid. sec. 81. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 76.

83. The said board of canvassers shall then transmit the said state-
ments made by them, attested by the signature of their chairman and
secretary, to the clerk of the circuit court for the county or to the
clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, who
shall enter the same of record. In case of all elections of presidential
electors, representatives in congress, senators and delegates to the gen-
eral assembly and of other State officers except governor or state's
attorney, the said clerk shall prepare three certified copies under his
seal of office of said statements and certificates. Within five days after
the adjournment of the board of canvassers the said clerk shall deposit
the said certified copies in the nearest postoffice, addressed respectively
to the governor, to the secretary of state and to the treasurer. The
statement of the votes for governor afer being recorded shall be trans-
mitted by the clerk to the secretary of state, as provided in the constitu-
tion. The said clerk shall make out and deliver to each person having
the highest number of votes for the several county and city offices a
certificate of election on his application. The said canvassing board
shall also make a statement of the whole number of votes given in each
precinct and county or city, with the names of the candidates and the
number of votes given for each in tabular form, and shall cause a copy
of such statement to be forthwith published in one or more of the
newspapers printed in the county or in the city of Baltimore; provided,
such official statement be so published without charge.