ELECTIONS 1477

Canvassing Boards.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 87. 1912, sec. 79. 1904, sec. 77. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 72. 1906,

ch. 544, sec. 77.

123. It shall be the duty of the said county commissioners, clerks of
court, mayor, register of wills and supervisors of. elections, respectively,
to keep safely, under lock and key, the said original statements or returns
and tally-sheets until the board of canvassers for the county or city, as the
case may be, shall have assembled and been organized according to law, as
hereinafter provided; whereupon the clerks of court, county commissioners,
mayor, register of wills and supervisors of elections shall immediately
deliver or transmit to such board of canvassers the said statements or
returns and tally-sheets in the sealed envelopes.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 88. 1912, sec. 80. 1904, sec. 78. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 73.

124. The supervisors of elections shall constitute a board of canvassers
for their county or city, as the case may be.

Cited but not construed in Dorsey v. Ennis, 167 Md. 450.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 89. 1912, sec. 81. 1904, sec. 79. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 74.

125. On the Thursday next following every election between the hours
of 12 o'clock noon and 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the board of county can-
vassers shall meet at the usual place for holding the circuit court for the
county, and the board of canvassers for Baltimore City shall meet at the
usual place for holding the superior court, and shall, respectively, elect a
chairman and secretary from their number. Each member of the board
shall take an oath, which shall be administered and recorded by the clerk
of the said court, to truly canvass, add up and declare the votes as required
by law. At their first meeting a majority of the whole board shall be a
quorum. If a majority shall not attend on the Thursday aforesaid, the
canvassers present shall adjourn to the next day, when they shall meet
again between the same hours, and the canvassers then attending, although
less than a majority of the whole number, shall organize themselves as a
board, and shall perform the duties required by law, and all questions aris-
ing in the course of their proceedings 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.

Cited but not construed in Dorsey v. Ennis, 167 Md. 450.

See notes to sec. 128.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 90. 1912, sec. 82. 1904, sec. 80. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 75. 1906,

ch. 544, sec. 80.

126. 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