ART. 33] CANVASSING BOARDS. 1053

lock and key, the said original statements or returns 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 and mayor shall immediately deliver or trans-
mit to such board of canvassers the said statements or returns
in the sealed envelopes.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 73.

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

Ibid. sec. 74.

79. 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 canvassers 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 chair-
man 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 per-
form 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 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.

Ibid. sec. 75

80. The board of canvassers shall upon being duly organ-
ized open all the original statements and returns delivered or
transmitted 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 gov-
ernor shall be written out in words at length on one sheet, and,