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" of judge of the said election according to the
" best of my knowledge, without favour, affection,
" or partiality;" and every candidate, or any three
voters, shall have a right to object to any person offering
to vote, and to have the objection entered on
the poll, if it be over-ruled; and every clerk of an
election, before he enters any vote on the polls, shall
take the following oath, or affirmation, to wit: " I,
" A. B. do swear, or affirm, that I will well and
" faithfully, without favour, affection, or partiality,
" execute the office of clerk of the election for ______
" county, the city of Annapolis, of Baltimore-town,
" according to the best of my knowledge."
IV. That all persons, with the exception in the seventh
section herein after expressed, qualified by the
charter of the city of Annapolis to vote for burgesses,
shall, on the same first Monday of October, seventeen
hundred and ninety-four, and on the same day in
every second year for ever thereafter, elect, viva voce,
by a majority of votes, two delegates, qualified agreeable
to the said charter; that the mayor, recorder and
aldermen, of the said city, or any three of them, be
judges of the election, appoint the place in the said city
for holding the same, and may adjourn from day to
day as aforesaid, and shall make return thereof as
aforesaid; but the inhabitants of the said city shall
not be entitled to vote for delegates for Anne Arundel
county, unless they have a freehold of fifty acres of
land in the county, distinct from the city.
V. That all persons, inhabitants of Baltimore-town,
and having the same qualifications as electors in the
county, shall, on the same first Monday of October,
seventeen hundred and ninety-four, and on the same
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