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XXXII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in all elections for members to represent this state in the;
congress of the United States, and for sheriffs, a ballot bos shall be prepared for the election district
which includes the city of Annapolis, with a division or partition therein, and that the ballots of
those voters in said city who are not entitled to vote, for delegates for Anne-Arundel county, shall be
out in and kept separate from the rest, and if on examination of the ballots it shall appear in the division
where the ballots of the first mentioned voters are deposited, that any person or persons have been
voted for as delegates to the general assembly, such ballot shall be totally rejected, and not counted.
XXXIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor and council, on receiving the returns of the elec-
tions aforesaid for electors to choose, a president and vice-president of the United States, and for mem-
bers to represent this state in the congress of the United States, shall enumerate and ascertain the number
of votes given for each and every person voted for as an elector, or member to congress aforesaid, re-
spectively, and shall thereupon declare, by proclamation, signed by the governor, the name of the per-
son or persons duly elected in each respective district, and the governor and council shall cause such
proclamation to be inserted in such news-papers on the western and eastern shores as they may direct.
XXXIV. AND, whereas it may happen that in the election of the said electors two or more of
the said candidates may have an equal number of votes, BE IT ENACTED, That in such case the go-
vernor and council shall determine, by lot, from the candidates who shall have an equal number of
votes as aforesaid, who shall be the elector for the said respective districts.
XXXV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case of an election for delegates or a delegate, or a re-
presentative in congress, to fill a vacancy, the warrant for such election shall go to the sheriff of the
county or counties where the election is to be held, who shall appoint the day for holding the same,
of which ten days notice at least, (exclusive of the day of notice and the day of election, ) shall be
given by such sheriff; and the said sheriff shall serve a copy of the said warrant, together with no-
tice of the day appointed for holding the said election, on each of the judges in each district at least
three days before the day appointed for holding such election, under the penalty of ten dollars for
each and every neglect; and such election shall be holden within fifteen days after the said warrant
shall be received by the sheriff to whom the same shall be directed.
XXXVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all fines and penalties created and imposed by this act, un-
less herein otherwise particularly directed and provided for, shall and may be recovered in the name
of the state, by indictment, in the county court of the county wherein the same shall accrue, and
be applied, one half thereof to the use of the informer, and the other half to the use of the county,
and it shall be the duty of the clerk of such county to return, annually, to their levy courts, a list
of all fines and penalties recovered by virtue of this act.
XXXVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the judges of the different county courts shall give this
act in charge to the grand juries of their respective counties, at the sitting of the court next after
every election to be held therein.
XXXVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all laws, clauses and sections of laws, repugnant to, or
inconsistent with, the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
CHAP. XCVIII.
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CHAP.
XCVII.
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A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to authorise the levy court
of Baltimore county to establish two additional warehouses in the
city of Baltimore for the inspection of tobacco.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of Baltimore county, and they are hereby autho-
rised, directed and empowered, to fix the salary of the inspector or inspectors of the warehouse or
warehouses which have been or shall be established in the city of Baltimore, agreeably to the pro-
visions of the act passed at November session, eighteen hundred and three.
C H A P. XCIX.
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Passed 27th of
January, 1806.
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