ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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office under the provisions of the existing charter of said town

until after the president and commissioners to be elected here-

after shall have been elected and have qualified, when the terms

of said board and officers now in office shall cease; and all acts

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done and to be done by said board and officers now in office, done

in office.

according to the existing charter shall be valid until that time,

and for that purpose it shall continue to determine their powers

and duties until that time except in regard to the giving of the

notice of election and appointment of judges of election pre-

scribed in section one hundred and thirty-one hereof, which shall

be as therein set forth.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 624.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections sixty-

eight and sixty-nine, of article thirty-three, of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws, title "Elections," sub-title "Certificates of

the number of votes for each candidate."

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That sections sixty-eight and sixty-nine, of article thirty-three,

of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Elections," sub-title

Repeal.

"Certificates of the number of votes for each candidate," be and

the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so

as to read as follows :

68. The presiding judges of elections in the several election

districts and election precincts in the counties, or in case of their

inability to attend, either of other judges shall within seven days

deliveryof

after each election, under the penalty of five hundred dollars,

poll books.

meet at the usual place of holding the circuit court for each

county with the books of the polls and the certificates aforesaid ;

in Baltimore city it shall be the duty of the judges of elections

within four days after each election, under the like penalty of

five hundred dollars, to deliver the said books of the polls and the

certificate aforesaid to the board of supervisors of elections, in

Baltimore city.

69. The said judges so assembled at the usual place for holding

the circuit court for each county and the said supervisors of elec-

tions in Baltimore city, shall respectively cast up the whole vote

Certifi-

of all the districts and precincts, and shall make out two plain,

cates.

fair and distinct statements and certificates of the number of

votes which shall have been given for each candidate for each of

the offices 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-