LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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.

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

Who to con-
stitute.

74. 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 re-
corded by the clerk of 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 th& Thursday aforesaid, the canvassers pres-
ent shall adjourn to the next day, when they shall meet again
between the same hours, and the canvassers then attending,
although less than a majoity of the whole number, shall organ-
ize themselves as a board, and shall perform the duties required
by law, and all questions arising in the course of their proceed-
ings shall be determined by a majority of the canvassers so
attending. All the sessions, deliberations and proceedings of
the board shall be public, and candidates and their counsel shall
have the right to attend and to inspect the original statements
and returns, and all other documents and records.

Meetings of
boards of
canvassers,

75. 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 man-
ner, as the case may require, namely: All votes for Governor
shall be written out in words at length on one sheet, and, in
like manner, all votes for other State officers on another sheet
all votes for Presidential electors on another sheet; all votes for
Representatives in Congress on another sheet; all votes for
judges of courts on another sheet; all votes for the clerk of the
Court of Appeals on another sheet; all votes for Senators and

Delegates to the General Assembly on another sheet; all voter
for county or city officers on another sheet; all votes for any
Other officers on a separate and appropriate sheet; all votes for
and against any proposition which may be submitted to a vote
of the people on another sheet.

Canvass of
votes, how
to be made