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taken within five days from the date of the decision complained of, and
shall be heard and decided by the court of appeals as soon after the
transmission of the record as possible, and the testimony taken in such
cases shall be sent up to the court of appeals as part of the record.

1904, art. 33, sec. 85. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 80.

87. The secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, clerk of the court
of appeals and attorney-general shall constitute the board of State can-
vassers, three of whom shall be a quorum. The secretary of state shall
appoint the meeting of the said board, to be held at his office within
thirty days after any State election; if a majority do not attend, those
present shall adjourn until the next day, at which time they shall
proceed, without further delay, to canvass the votes. The board, when
thus formed, shall, from the certified copies of the statements made by
the boards of city and county canvassers, proceed to make a statement
of the whole number of votes given at such election for the several candi-
dates for the offices named in said statements, and thereupon proceed
to determine and declare what persons have been, by the greatest number
of votes, elected to such offices, and each of them; they shall make
and subscribe on a proper statement a certificate of such determination
and shall deliver the same to the secretary of state. If any one of the
canvassers shall dissent from the decision of the board, he shall state
at large, in writing, the reasons for such dissent. If any of the acts or
proceedings of the board shall appear to any one of the canvassers to
be illegal or irregular, such canvasser shall protest against the same,
in writing, setting forth distinctly the grounds of his protest; the
canvasser so dissenting or protesting shall deliver his dissent or protest,
signed with his proper name, to the secretary of state, who shall file
the same in his office, and he shall also keep on file in his office the
copies of the statements made by the board of city and county canvassers.
The board shall have power to adjourn, from day to day, during a period
not exceeding five days.

Ibid. sec. 86. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 81.

88. The secretary of state shall record in his office, in a book to
be kept by him for that purpose, each certified statement and determina-
tion which shall be delivered to him by the board of State canvassers,
and every dissent or protest which shall have been delivered to him by
a canvasser. He shall, without delay, transmit a copy, under seal of
his office, of such certified determination to each person thereby declared
to be elected, and a like copy to the governor, and he shall cause a
copy of such certified statements and determinations to be published in
one newspaper in the city of Annapolis and one in the city of Baltimore.
In conformity with the statements and determinations made as afore-
said by the board of State canvassers, the governor shall issue commis-
sion to the different persons elected as now provided by the constitution
and laws of this State.
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