664 ELECTIONS—CERTIFICATES OF RESULT. [ART. 33.

which shall have been given for each candidate, for each of the
officers voted for at said election, one of which certificates shall
be delivered to the clerk of the court to which they are directed
to make their returns, and the other, except in elections for gov-
ernor and State's attorneys, shall be transmitted by mail to the
governor; and in case of elections for governor and State's attor-
neys, the said statements and certificates, instead of being trans-
mitted to the governor, shall, in case of governor, be transmited
to the secretary of State, and in the case of State's attorneys, shall
be transmitted to the judge of the court having criminal juris-
diction in the circuit in which State's attorneys are respectively
elected; and from the returns so made, the governor shall issue
commissions to the different persons elected, according to the
provisions of the constitution.
Groome v. Gwinn, 43 Md. 572.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 35, sec. 31. 1805, ch 97, sec. 15. 1860, ch. 10, sec. 3.
70. The said certificates for all officers elected by the voters
of a single county or city, except sheriff, shall be in the following
form, or to the like effect, to wit: "To——. Whereas, an elec-
tion for ———— was held on the first Wednesday of November in
the year ———— in the district (or precinct) in the said county or
city, distinguished by number one, &c., conformably to the con-
stitution and laws of this State; and whereas, we the subscribers,
attending judges at the close of election in said districts, (or pre-
cincts,) having this day assembled at the usual place of the sitting
of the circuit court for said county (or at the usual place of the
sitting of the superior court of Baltimore city,) with the books of
the polls, on which are endorsed the several certificates agreeably
to law, and having cast up the whole number of votes given in
said districts (or precincts) according to the certificates made out
on the day of election by the judges, it appears that -——— has
the greatest number of legal votes for ———, whereupon we do
determine, declare, and return, that the said ———— is duly
elected. Given under our hands this ———— day of November,
in the year ————;" and for sheriffs the certificate shall be in
the same form, except that they shall certify that "———— had
——— ballots and ——— had ——— ballots, and that ———
and ———— had a majority of legal ballots of the candidates
qualified."