PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 7911

hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to readi
as follows:

SEC. 85. The Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer,
Clerk of the Court of Appeals and Attorney General shall con-
stitute the Board of State Canvassers, three of whom shall be a
quorum. The Secretary of State shall appoint the meeting
of the said Board, to be held at his office within thirty days
after any State election, or any election at which a candidate
for United States Senator be elected; if a majority do not at-
tend, those present shall adjourn until the next day, at which,
time they shall proceed, without further delay to canvass
the votes. The board, when thus formed, shall from the certi-
fied copies of the statements made by the boards of city and
county canvassers, proceed to make a statement of the whole
number of votes given at such election for the several candi-
dates for the offices named in said statements, and thereupon
proceed to determine and declare what persons have been, by
the greatest number of votes, elected to such offices, and each of
them; they shall make and subscribe on a proper statement a
certificate of such determination, and shall deliver the same to
the Secretary of State. If any one of the canvassers shall dis-
sent from the decision of the board, he shall state at large in
writing, the reasons for such dissent. If any of the Acts or
proceedings of the board shall appear to any one. of the can-
vassers to be illegal and irregular, such canvasser shall protest
against the same, in writing, setting forth distinctly the grounds;
of his protest; the canvasser so dissenting or protesting shall
deliver his dissent or protest, signed with his proper name, to
the Secretary of State, who shall file the same in his office, and
he shall also keep on file in his office the copies of the state-
ments made by the board of city and county canvassers. The
board shall have power to adjourn, from day to day, during a
period not exceeding five days.

SEC. 86. The Secretary of State shall record in his office,
in a book kept by him for that purpose, each certified statement
and determination which shall be delivered to him by the Board
of State Canvassers, and every dissent or protest which shall
have been delivered to him by a canvasser. He shall, without
delay, transmit a copy under seal of his office, of such certified
determination to each person thereby declared to be elected,
and a like copy to the Governor, and he shall cause a copy of
such certified statements and determinations to be published in
one newspaper in the City of Annapolis and one in the City of