Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-08

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Approved June 3, 1892.
STATE BOARD OF CANvAssERs.
rs. B. Mol speda]
AN ACT to Provide for a Board of State canvasser.
Be it Enacted by the Legislative assembly of the State of North Dakota:
l. Board, HOW eoNsr17uTED:] The Governor Go, Attorney
tute the Board Of State Canvassers, three Of whom shall be a
quorum for the transaction of business, and if less than a quorum
only of said officers attend on the day appointed for a meeting Of
the board, then those SO attending are are hereby t author authorized to sum-
who, on being notified by the officer or officers SO attending, shall
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board is a candidate for any office as to which the votes are to be
officer who shall act in his stead at the session of the board while
the votes given for such member are to be canvassed.
s e OF sr4rE !. t Is shall L be the d duty :H Of the &c. e9unty auditor
Der following any general election, and within thirty days follow
ing any special election, a certified abstract of the number of
votes cast in his respective county at said election for every
candidate for State and Congressional offices, and electors for
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auditors shall make a separate certified abstract Of the Votes cast
for persons for electors for President and Vice-Presiden Of the
it Presidential elector returns, and without delay transmit it to
the Secretary of State by registered mail.
Secretary of State, upon receipt of the certified ABSTRACTS of votes
given in the several counties, directed rect to be sent to him b.. the
by counties, and shall file and carefully preserve the certified
such statement shall be received by him from the county auditor
of any county prior to the time specified for the meeting Of said
Odr o. CIdUo CanNaSSeIS, ne may du IL Is hereby naue MS duty
to dispatch a special messenger to obtain such statement from the
county auditor thereof, at the expense of said county, and such
and deliver to him the statement required, which the messenger
shall deliver to the Secretary of State to be recorded and filed by
him as aforesaid.
IS. MEETING OF STATE cANvAssNe BOARD For the pur-
pose Of canvassng and ascertaining the result of such election, the
Of State on the second Tuesday Of December next after a general
election and within forty days after a special election, and the
Secretary of State shall notify the other members of the board of
the same.
S.. DUTY OF BOARD The board when thus formed shall ex-
anime such certified statements Of the county canvassers, and if
it shall appear that any material mistake has been made in the
computation Of votes given for any person, or that the county can
vassers in any county have omitted to canvass the votes, or any
patch a messenger to the county auditor Of such county, at the ex-
pense Of said county, with their requirement in writing to him to
certify the facts concerning such mistake and the reason why such
votes were not canvassed; and the county auditor to whom any
such requirement is d delivered shall forthwith make a true and full
answer thereto, under his hand and official SEAL and deliver the
same to such messenger, who shall deliver the same with all con-
venient dispatch to the Secretary Of State;
be necessary, from day to day, not exceeding three days in all.
S. PUBLIC CANVASS Upon the certified statements and re,
make a statement Of the whole number of votes given at any
such election for each and all State officers; and another state
ment of the votes given for Representatives in Congress in each
congressional district, each of which statements shall show the
names of the persons to whom such vote shall have been given
for either Of said Offices, and the whole number of votes given
So. GiRT1r1cArE OF RESULT. They shall certify such state
ments to be correct and subscribe their names thereto, and they
shall thereupon determine what persons have been, by the great
est number of votes, duly elected to such offices, or either of
them, and shall make out and subscribe on each statement a GER
tifcate Of such determination, and deliver the same to the Secre-
tary of State.
TON. The Secretary of State shall record in his office each
certified statement and determination SO made by said board, and
thereby declared to be elected a certificate of election as herein
after provided, and he shall also forthwith cause a copy of such
certified statement and determinations to be published in a news
paper printed at the seat of government.
S II. CERTIFICATE OF REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS-. The
be signed by the Governor with the seal Of the State affixed, and