1498 ARTICLE 41.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 15. 1805, ch. 97, sec. 33. 1890, ch. 67.

27. The governor upon receiving the returns of election for electors
to choose a president and vice-president of the United States and for mem-
bers to represent this State in the congress of the United States shall
enumerate and ascertain the number of votes given for each person voted
for as an elector and member of congress respectively, and shall thereupon
declare by proclamation signed by him, the name or names of the person
or persons duly elected, and shall cause such proclamation to be inserted
in such newspapers as he may direct.

See notes to sec. 24.

See art. 33, sec. 157, et seq.

An. Code, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 16. 1888, sec. 16. 1854, ch. 280.

28. Upon the application in writing of any volunteer officer or soldier
who served in the first and second battalions of Maryland volunteers in
the Mexican war, or any citizen of Maryland who enlisted in any com-
pany composing a portion of the ten additional regiments called into ser-
vice by act of congress during the said war, and served therein, and upon
such proof as he may deem necessary to establish such service and an
honorable discharge from or muster out of the same, the governor shall
issued to such volunteer or enlisted officer or soldier a copy or duplicate of
the discharge received by him when so discharged or mustered out of ser-
vice, printed upon parchment and signed by the governor, the secretary of
state, and adjutant general, and attested by the great seal of the State.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 17. 1774, ch. 23. 1793, ch. 34.

29. Whenever the governor shall have strong grounds from the infor-
mation of physicians or otherwise to apprehend that there is danger of any
malignant, contagious disease being introduced into this State from for-
eign parts, or from any of the United States, he may compel any vessel
coming to any of our ports, shores or harbors, to ride quarantine, and may
forbid all intercourse or communication, either by land or water, between
this State and the place affected, or lay such intercourse under such regu-
lations and restrictions as he may think advisable, and take all measures
and do all things which may appear to him necessary to give effect to the
objects of this section.

An. Code, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1892, ch. 325. 1896, ch. 259.

30. The governor is authorized and empowered to employ such clerical
help as may be necessary to assist in the executive department in preparing
and attending to such election business as is now, or may hereafter by
law be assigned to that department, or to the secretary of state; and the
sum of two thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the payment of such clerical help.