ELECTIONS. 1279

An. Code, sec. 82. 1904, sec. 80. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 75. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 80.

90. The board of canvassers shall, upon being duly organized, open all
the original statements or returns and tally-sheets delivered or transmitted
to them, and shall canvass and add up the votes and make abstracts or state-
ments 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
proposition which may be submitted to a vote of the people on another sheet.

Canvassers may not reject returns from a precinct because the seals and strips of
paper on the ballot boxes have been torn, broken and virtually destroyed. The
canvassers, as such, have no right to have ballot boxes before them; they should
be in custody of clerk. Powers conferred on canvassers are wholly different from
those conferred on same individuals as supervisors; duties of former are purely
ministerial. Canvassers of Election v. Noll, 127 Md. 301. And see Price v. Ashburn,
122 Md. 524.

This section referred to in construing sec. 203—see notes thereto. Usilton v.
Bramble, 117 Md. 13.

See notes to sec. 92.

An. Code, sec. 83. 1904, sec. 81. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 76.

91. The said board of canvassers shall then transmit the said state-
ments made by them, attested by the signature of their chairman and secre-
tary, 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, representa-
tives in congress, senators and delegates to the general 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 can-
vassers 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 after being
recorded shall be transmitted by the clerk to the secretary of state, as pro-
vided in the constitution. 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 num-
ber 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.

This section referred to in construing sec. 203—see notes thereto. Usilton v.
Bramble, 117 Md. 13.
See notes to sec. 90.