ART. 33] CANVASSING THE VOTES. 271

1896, ch. 202.

80. The Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk of
the Court of Appeals and Attorney General shall constitute the
board of State canvassers, three of whom shall be a quorum.
The Secretary of State shall appoint the meeting of the said
board, to be held at his office within thirty days after any State
election; if a majority do not attend, those present shall adjourn
until the next day, at which time they shall proceed, without
further delay, to canvass the votes. The board when thus
formed shall, from the certified copies of the statements made
by the boards of city and county canvassers, proceed to make a
statement of the whole number of votes given at such election
for the several candidates for the offices named in said statements,
and thereupon proceed to determine and declare what persons
have been, by the greatest number of votes, elected to such
offices, and each of them; they shall make and subscribe on a
proper statement a certificate of such determination, and shall
deliver the same to the Secretary of State. If any one of the
canvassers shall dissent from the decision of the board, be shall
state at large, in writing, the reasons for such dissent. If any of
the acts or proceedings of the board shall appear to any one of
the canvassers to be illegal or irregular, such canvasser shall pro-
test against the same, in writing, setting forth distinctly the
grounds of his protest; the canvasser so dissenting or protesting
shall deliver his dissent or protest, signed with his proper name,
to the Secretary of State, who shall file the same in his office,
and he shall also keep on file in his office the copies of the state-
ments made by the board of city and county canvassers. The
board shall have power to adjourn, from day to day, during a
period not exceeding five days.

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Ibid.

81. The Secretary of State shall record in his office, in a book
to be kept by him for that purpose, each certified statement and
determination which shall be delivered to him by the board
of State canvassers, and every dissent or protest which shall have
been delivered to him by a canvasser. He shall, without delay,
transmit a copy, under seal of his office, of such certified deter-
mination to each person thereby declared to be elected, and a