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in court or before said Board. After such inspection, examination
and recording of the results thereof, the said voting machines shall be
released and made available for use in any succeeding election.

BOARD OF STATE CANVASSERS

142.   Membership and Duties. (a) Membership. The Secretary
of State, Comptroller, State Treasurer, Clerk of the Court of Appeals
and Attorney General shall constitute the Board of State Canvassers,
three of whom shall be a quorum.

(b)  Meetings. The Secretary of State shall convene 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 MEMBER
OF THE CONGRESS OF THE United States Senator is to be elected.
If a majority does not attend, those present shall adjourn until the
next day, at which time they shall proceed, without further delay,
to canvass the votes.

(c)   Tabulation of 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 candi-
dates for the offices named in said statements. The Board shall
thereupon 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.

(d)  Dissents and Protests. If any of the canvassers shall dissent
from the decision of the Board, he shall state at large in writing,
the reason for such dissent. If any of the acts or proceedings of
the Board shall appear to any one of the canvassers to be irregular
and illegal, such canvasser shall protest the same, in writing, setting
forth distinctly the grounds of his protest; the canvasser so dissent-
ing 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. He shall also keep on file in his office the copies of the
statements made by the board of city and county canvassers.

(e)  Adjournments. The Board shall have power to adjourn, from
day to day, during a period not exceeding five days.

143.   Commissions of Election. (a) Duties of Secretary of State.
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 Baltimore.

(b) Governor to Issue Commissions. In conformity with the state-
ments and determinations made as aforesaid by the Board of State
Canvassers, the Governor shall issue commissions to the different