The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-15

| Cio0) registered voters in the city. In oil
| viding and establishing precincts in the
| City of Baltimore, the new precincts shall
| conform to the boundaries of the Legisla-
tive and Congressional districts estao-
| ton district or ward shall be numbered
from one upward, consecutively. The
| boundaries of said precincts shall be made
| known by advertisement in one or more
| newspapers in said counties or city once
| week for two successive weeks before
the LIST day of July in each year in which
| such division Is made.
lis. The Board Of Supervisors of Elec.
tons In the City of Baltimore shall
moreover, in every year In which sucn
division Is made, cause to. be prepared
| maps of said city, showing the boundaries
| of the wards and precincts as established
| by said board. They shall furnish sufh-
Gent number of copies of such maps to
the officers of registration of each pre-
cinct. who shall keep one or more copies
OF such maps conspicuously posted In the
ofiiees OF registration, during their sittings;
such maps to any person who shall apply
for the same and pay fifty cents for each
map so furnished him.
| CONTESTED ELECTIONS.
11s. All contested elections for comp
the " Of aW anG regsters s Of wills
| shall decided by the House of Dele
gates, and the testimony shall be taken in
such cases in the same manner as herein
| ate and House of Delegates.
12o. All cases of contested elections Of
9f the o nc 9E IN
| shall be decided by the judges Of the sew
eral Circuit Courts-each in his respective
1d by the spRer 10 S1t Of Bal
121. Each Judge of the Circuit Court
| and Of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City may adopt such modes Of proceeding
and adjudging costs in cases Of contested
elections as to him shall seem most sat
! .sfactory, but the rules of taking testi-
mony in such cases shall be the same as
| timonv in contested election cases cog
nizable by the House of Delegates.
s 122: II either tn party shall deem himself
Circuit Courts or the Superior Court of
Baltimore City in cases of contested cleo
| tons, he shall have right of appeal to
said appeal to be taken within five days
! from the date of the decision complained
Of and shall be heard and decided by the
Court of Appeals as soon after transmits
and the testimony taken in such cases
shall be sent up to the Court of Appeals
as part of the record.
| 1913. The party intending to contest an
election for the Senate or House of Dele
| gatesc shall give notice of such intention
| to the person elected or in case of a tie
contest is to be instituted, within thirty
days after the judges of election shall
have made known publicly the state Of
the polls, unless at a special election to
given within ten days after the state of
the polls is announced by the judges Of
| election.
1874 Such notices shall be delivered in
| writing at the usual residence of the per-
son returned. and, if he be absent. shall
be left there.
125. The party intending to make ex-
animation shall, after such notice, apply
to some justice Of the peace of the county
\ NJ ~ yyha he al ic <nI
| and shall obtain notice under his hand
and SEAL directed to the opposite party, re-
quiring him to attend. in person or by
126. The Justice in such cases shall
have the usual power to coerce the at
| tendance of witnesses.
| tain the names of the witnesses with the
facts expected to be proved by them, and
shall state the time and place of examina
ton and shall be served on the opposite
party or his attorney at least ten days
previous to the proposed examination.
12S. Every person deposing shall be ex-
! reduced to writing either by himself, in
the presence of the justice, or by the JUS
tice. or by clerk by him appointed ard
cribe the dispositions, and shall be trans
scribed by the deponent.
| 129. The dispositions SO taken, together
of service of them shall be sealed up BY the
| justice who took them and transmitted
| to the presiding officer of the body in
| which the seat Is contested.
| 100. The examination of witnesses, taken
| in the manner herein prescribed, and in
no other, shall hereafter be admitted on
| trial of contested elections.
| 13l. The copies of any papers recorded
| in any office of record attested under the
| hand and seal of the recording officer,
| shall be admitted at all such trials in the
| same manner as the originals would be II
lS2. The copies of any other papers Of a
public nature and remaining in possession
of public officer and extracts from the
| poll books under the hand and seal of the
clerk of the court or public officer in whose
office they are deposited. shall be ad-
lSS. The Board of Police Commissioners
! in the City of Baltimore and the clerks Ct
| the Circuit Courts in the counties, to
whom ballots have been returned under
the provisions of this Article shall produce
any such ballots in regard to which tes-
timony may be proposed to be taken be-
| lions in a contested election, and shall
furnish said justice copies of the same
only on an order first had and obtained
more City, or of the Circuit Courts for
| the counties or some one of the judges
thereof and then. in pursuance of the
terms and conditions of said order, and
subject to its restrictioas and said Police
| Commissioners of Baltimore City and said
clerk, as the case may be. shall retain
until such ballots shal be required by the
order of the court having jurisdiction in
the case to be delivered to said court. or
by order of the Senate or House of Dele
gates, in whichever the seat is contested
1874 The justice before whom such de-
positions shall be taken shall be entitled
to the sum of two dollars for every day.
he may be engaged in the examination OF
witnesses. and the witnesses shall be en-
titled TO the usual allowance for their at
tendance before a justice of the peace,
to be paid by the party on whose behalf
such examination is held and said wit
nesses are summoned.
49, No person contesting seat Of any
one who has been regularly returned by
the Judges of election. as elected to seat
in the Senate or House of Delegates, shall
pay unless the party so contesting shall
establish his right to such seat.
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND
VICE PRESIDENT.
1885, On the first Tuesday next after the
first Monday Of November, preceding the
time fixed by law of the United States for
choice of President and Vice President of
the United States, there shall be elected
by general tickets, as many electors OF
President and Vice President as this state
49, Each citizen of this state entitled to
vote for delegates TO the General Assem-
bly, snail have the s right to y9 re for th1
persons. to the number required to be
chosen, having the highest number of
votes. snail De declared anu ueeIneu uuiy
appointed electors.
l3S If any of the persons voted for as
electors shall have an equal number of
votes. as to defeat a choice between
lot which of the persons having such
equal number of votes shall be electors,
so as to complete the whole number to
which the stale shall be entitled
139 The said election shall. in all re-
spects, be conducted as other elections,
and the returns thereof made and can
vassed. as hereinbefore directed.
no. Upon the meeting of the persons
and Vice President, or of as many of
said persons as may attend on the day
appointed by the Constitution and laws
of the United States. the said electors
perform the duties reposed in them, shall
ill any vacancy which may exist in the
said college of electors at such meeting,
whether such vacancy be occasioned by
or persons SO appointed to fill such vacancy
or vacancies shall be entitled to all the
rights and privileges of those proclaimed
by the Governor as duly elected electors
+! United States.
al. The electors for this state shall
meet in the State House, in the City Of
Annapolis, and give their votes for Pres-
dent and Vice President of The United
States az the hour of noon upon the first
Wednesday in December in the year i'll
which they are appointed.
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS.
49, Elections of representatives Of this
state in the Congress of the United States
shall be held on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in the month of November
every two years. commencing in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and TAX
ing place every second year thereafter.
14S. If a vacancy should occur by death,