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218 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 143.
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Passed March
24, 1866;
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AN ACT to repeal sections twenty-nine, thirty,
thirty-two and fifty-two, of Article thirty-five
of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled,
"Elections," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.
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Sections re-
pealed.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That sections twenty-nine, thirty,
thirty-two and fifty-two, of Article thirty-five, of
the Code of Public General Laws, title "Elec-
tions," be and the. same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:
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Duty of
Judges of elec-
tions.
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29. The presiding Judges of Election, or in
case of inability to attend, either of the other
Judges shall within ten days after each election,
or as soon as they shall be notified that the returns
of the soldiers' vote has been received, shall under
the penalty of five hundred dollars, meet at the
usual place of holding the Circuit Court of each
county, or at the usual place of holding the Supe-
rior Court of Baltimore city, in the city of Balti-
more, with the books of the polls and the certifi-
cate aforesaid.
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Votes gives
— to whom
trasmitted.
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30. The said Judges so assembled shall cast
up the whole vote of all the districts or precincts,
and shall make out two plain, fair and distinct
statements and certificates of the number of votes
which shall have been given for each candidate,
for each of the officers voted for at said election,
including Lieutenant Governor, one of which cer-
tificates 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-
ernor and State's Attorneys, shall be transmitted by
mail to the Governor, and in case of elections for
Governor and State's Attorneys, the said state-
ments and certificates instead of being transmitted
to the Governor, shall, in case of Governor, be
transmitted to the Secretary of State, and in the
case of State's Attorneys shall be transmitted to
the Judge of the court having criminal juris-
diction in the circuit in which State's Attorneys
are respectfully elected ; and from the returns so
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