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man and secretary, 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, representatives 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 the
said statements and certificates. Within five days after the
adjournment of the board of canvassers, 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 provided 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 elec-
tion 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 number of votes given for each, in tabular form, and
shall cause a copy of such statements 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.

1898, ch. 202.

77. In the canvass of votes by the canvassing board for the
city or county herein provided, said board shall, unless otherwise
provided in the constitution of this State, declare who is elected
to any city or county office, or to any office voted for only within
the territory of such city or county.

Ibid.

78. If, upon proceeding to canvass the votes, it shall clearly
appear to the canvassing board for the city or county that in any
statement produced to them certain matters are omitted which
should have been inserted, or that any mistakes which are merely
clerical exist, they shall immediately issue a subpoena to the
judges and clerks who made said return, and said judges and
clerks shall forthwith attend, and shall make such correction as