268 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

for Baltimore city shall meet at the usual place for holding the
superior court, and shall, respectively, elect a chairman and sec-
retary from their number. Each member of the board shall
take an oath, which shall be administered and recorded by the
clerk of 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 arising in the course of their proceedings shall be
determined by a majority of the canvassers so attending. All
the sessions, deliberations and proceedings of the board shall be
public, and candidates and their counsel shall have the right to
attend and to inspect the original statements and returns, and all
other documents and records.

1896, ch. 202.

75. The board of canvassers shall, upon being duly organized,
open all the original statements and returns delivered or trans-
mitted to them, and shall canvass and add up the votes and make
abstracts or statements 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; all votes for any other officers on a
separate and appropriate sheet; all votes for and against any
proposition which may be submitted to a vote of the people on
another sheet.

Ibid.

76. The said board of canvassers shall then transmit the said
statements made by them, attested by the signature of their chair-