T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

that had votes as given

under our hands, at the place of said election,
this day of attested by
clerk; and the certificate or return of the judges of
election, in the city of Baltimore, shall be in like
form or to the like effect, with such variation there-
in as may be required by the local laws of the city
of Baltimore:

CHAP. 10.

That the following be a substitute for the thir-
tieth section of the said article:

30th section.

The said judges so assembled shall cast up the
whole vote of all 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, one of which
certificates shall be delivered to the clerk of the
court to whom they are directed to make their re-
turns, and the other (except in elections for Gov-
ernor, States' Attorneys and Supervisors of Roads, )
shall be transmitted by mail to the Governor; and
in the case of the election for Governor, shall be
transmitted by mail to the Secretary of State.

Statement of
votes.

That the following be a substitute for the thirty-
first section of said article:

The said certificates for all officers elected by the
voters of a single county or city, except sheriff,
shall be in the following form or to the like effect,
to wit:

3lst section.

Whereas, an election for was held on the
first Wednesday of November, in the year
in the district or precinct in said county or city
designated by number one, &c., conformably to the
Constitution and Laws of this State; And whereas,
we the subscribers, attending judges at the close of
the election in said districts or precincts, having
this day assembled at the usual place of the sitting
of the Circuit court for said county, (or at the usual
place of the sitting of the Superior court of Balti-
more city, ) with the books of the polls on which
are endorsed the several certificates agreeably to
law, and having cast up the whole number of votes
given in said districts or precincts, according to the
certificates made out on the day of election by the
judges, it appears that has the greatest
number of legal votes for whereupon we
do determine, declare and return that the said

Preamble.