1538 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

the original canvass, shall be deemed a continuing board. There
shall be the same right of appeal as in other mandamus cases,
but such appeal shall be taken within five days from the date
of the decision complained of, and shall be heard and decided
by the Court of Appeals as soon after the transmission of the
record as possible, and the testimony taken in such cases shall
be sent up to the Court of Appeals as part of the record.

99. The Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Clerk
of the Court of Appeals and Attorney General shall constitute
the Board of State Canvassers, three of whom shall be a
quorum. The Secretary of State shall appoint the meeting of
the said Boarvd, to be held at his office within thirty days after
any State election, or any election at which a candidate for
United States Senator is to be elected; if a majority do not
attend, 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 certified
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 candidates 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 Secre-
tary of State. If any one of the canvassers shall dissent 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 canvassers 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 statements
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.

100. 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 certi-
fied 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