Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-04-17
Our State and Municipal Elections.

We copy the following from the Balti-
more Gazette:
The following carefully prepared ac
count of the time of holding our municip-
al and State elections; the offices to be
filled this fall; the numbers of members in
each House of the General Assembly; the
Senators holding over, and the Senators to
be chosen, will be found of more than Or
dinary interest at this time, not only to the
people of Baltimore, but to those of the
State generally:
On the fourth Wednesday of October
next, being the 22d proximo, the voters of
Baltimore elect Mayor, and ten members
of the Second Branch of the City Council,
each for term of two years; and mem
Der from each of the twenty wards Of the
city to the First Branch of the City Coun-
Gil. for term of one year. The term Of
Office of the Mayor commences on the first
Monday Of November succeeding his cleo
tion, which, this year, will be the third
day or that month. The regular session
of the City Council commences on the third
Monday of January of each year, but the
Mayor may convene an extra session at
an earlier day.
The biennial general State election will
take place on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in November, being the fourth
day Of that month in the present year, at
which time the voters of the entire State
will be called upon to elect Comptroller
of the State Treasury Department, to serve
two years, and Clerk of the Court of APP
peals, to serve for term of six years.
On the said fourth day of November
next there will also be held in each coun-
ty an election for a Sheriff, Clerk of the
Court, Register Of Wills, Surveyor, and
County Commissioners. In Baltimore city,
for Sheriff, Cleak of the Superior
Court, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas, Clerk of the Baltimore City Court,
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore
City, Clerk of the Criminal Court of
fBaItimore, a Register of Wills, and a Sur
veyor. All the Sherifs, the Surveyors, and
the County Commissioners, serve for a
term of two years; the Clerks ofCourts and
the Registers of Wills for term of six
years. l..
At the same time an election is held for
members of the State Senate and members
of the House of Delegates. These bodies,
composing the General Assembly of Mary
I land, convene on the first Wednesday of
January, 1874. The Senate, as now con-
stituted, consists Of twenty-six members.
Twelve Senators of the last Legislature
hold over two years longer. Fourteen
Senators are to be elected this year, each
to serve term of four years. Of those
holding over there are eleven Democrats
and one Republican. The Democrats are
Messrs. Claggett of Washington, Longwell
of Carroll, Tuck of Anne Arundel, Carroll
of Howard, Williams of Calvert, Spencer
of Kent, Earle of Queen Anne's, Crawford
of Wicomico, Davis of Baltimore county,
Blake of the First, and Denison of the
Third Senatorial districts of Baltimore
city, and Steiner of frederick Republican }
The following named counties elect new
State Senators, viz: Garrett (new county,,
Allegany, Hartford, Montgomery, Prince
Georges, Charles, ST. Mary's, Cecil, Talbot,
Caroline, Dorchester, Worcester, and Som
erset. The Second Senatorial district of
Baltimore city, composed of the Eighth,
NINTH Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Nine
teenth and Twentieth wards, also elects a
Senator.
The entire body of the House of Dele
gates will also be elected, and consists of
the following representations, viz: Garrett
county, two members; Allegany three,
Washington four, Frederick five, Carroll
four, Hartford three, Howard two, Anne
Arundel three, Montgomery three, Calvert
two, Prince Georges three, Charles two,
st. Mary's two, Cecil three, Kent two,
Queen Anne's two, Talbot two, Caroline
two, Dorchester three, Somerset three, Wi
comico two, Baltimore county six, and
Baltimore city eighteen, making eighty
three members in this branch of the Legis-
lature, and requiring forty-two for ma
jority. The Senate, consisting of twenty
six members, fourteen is required for a
majority. Both Houses, consisting of one
hundred and nine members, fifty-fve will
be majority ON Joint ballot