The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-04
No. 80

/ tlOn; the board Of county canVassers of
Hyde and Carteret counties shall meet
on the fourth day after the election;
and as soon as such chairman shall be
appointed, he shall administer to each
of the other members, and each of the
other members shall take, an oath or
affirmation in the following form:
You do swear (or affirm) that YOU will
faith ully and impartially execute the
duties Of the board of canvassers ac-
cording to law" And thereupon one
OF the members of such board, ap-
pointed for that purpose, shall admin
lister to such chairman, and such chair
man shall take an oath or affirmation
In the same form as that taken by the
other members of the board And be
fore proceeding to canvass and estimate
the votes In such county, the chairman
of the board shall administer to the
clerk thereof an oath or affirmation in
the following form: You do swear
Tor affirm that you will faithfully exc
cute the duties of clerk of this board
according to law"
! SEC 1884 The board of county can
vassers shall, at their said meeting, in
the presence of the sheriff and of such
electors as choose to attend, open and
canvass and judicially determine the
returns, and make abstracts, stating
the number of legal ballots cast in each
precinct for each Office, the name of
each person voted for, and the number
of votes given each person for each diff
! ferent Office, and shall sign the same
S aid board shall have power and au-
thority to judicially pass upon all the
facts relative to the election, and
judicially determine and declare the
true result of the same; and they shall
also have power and authority to send
for papers and persons, and examine
the latter on oath.
Sec 1895. The abstract Of the votes
for each of the following classes shall
be made on different sheet:
1, Governor and all State officers;
3. representatives in Congress;
| 8 Senators and Representatives in
the General Assembly;
Justices of the Supreme Court,
Judges of the Superior Court, and So
licitors;
5 County officers.
SEC 1885, Three abstracts of all the
votes cast for any State officer. for
Representative in Congress, for Justices
of the Supreme Court, for Judges of
the Superior Court and for Solicitor,
shall be made and signed by the chair
man of the board of county canvassers,
one of which shall be delivered to the
sheriff of the county, one fled with the
register of deeds, to be registered in his
Office, and one forwarded by mail in a
registered letter to the Secretary of
State at Raleigh. Also two separate
abstracts of all the votes cast for State
Senators when the Senatorial district
consists of more than one county, one
of which shall be fled with the register
of deeds, to be registered in his Office.
and the other furnished to the sheriff
of the county or OOaer returning officer.
Sec. 1892. Each abstract of the votes
cast for such officers as the county
alone elects shall contain an accurate
statement of all the persons voted for
and the number of legal votes cast for
each.
SEC. 1898. When the canvass is con
cluded, the board shall deliver the or
iginal returns to the Clerk of the Supe
rior Court, to be fled In his Office, and
shall cause each of the abstracts men
toned in the two preceding sections to
be recorded in a book to be called '"The
Election Book, to be kept in the Office
of the said clerk. And said clerk shall
also transmit by mail to the Secretary
of State duplicates of the abstracts
mentioned in section twenty-six hun.
dred and ninety six, each abstract to
be sealed up In separate envelope
SEC. 2699. The person having the
greatest number of legal votes for any
Office is to be declared elected. But if
two or more county candidates, havin 3
the greatest number of votes, shall
have an equal number, the board of
! commissioners of the county shall de-
termine which shall be elected.
SEC, 2700. When the board of county
canvassers have thus completed the
comparison of the polls, they shall de-
termine the result Of the election in
their county for all persons voted for
: and proclaim the same at the court
! house door, with the number Of votes
: cast for each.
SEC. 27O1. The sheriffs or other re.
; turning officers in the various Senate
Z rial districts composed of more than
l one county, after receiving the returns
from the board Of county canvassers,
shall meet on the tenth day after the
election, at the following places In their
respective districts, for the purpose OF
comparing the polls: In the first dis
. trict at Hertford, in the county oi
; Perquimans; in the second district, at
; Plymouth, in the county OF Washing
ton; in the third district, at Roxobel,
:. in the county of BERTHE; in the seventh
| district, at Nashville, in the county Of
4 Nash; in the eighth district, at New
; Berne, in the county Of Craven in the
; ninth district, at Warsaw, in the county
of Duplin; in the tenth district, at VIII
. miDgton, In the county of New Han
over; in the eleventh district, at Ridge
way, in the county Of Warren; in the
: fourteenth district, at Roseboro, IN the
! ! couu tY of Sampson; in the fifteenth dis
Z trict, at Lemons Cross Roads, near
Francis Lemons, In the county Of
, Columbus. in the seventeenth district