The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-11
TO CANVASS VOTES
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Returns from Tuesday's Election "w be Forwarded te state Cepise AIabnma Presidential Esec-
 tors Meet in DeceDbef.

The first ofYicial activity in the State since the returning officers have takep charge of the ballots of Alabama yot- ers 10 determine the results of the election Tuesday begins today when the superyisory boards of all the counties will meet in the onices or the probate judges and count the votes'
 The supervisors of the elections ir every County are the probate judge. the clerk of the circuit court and the returning officer. who Is the sheriff.
 Within ten days after the election the probate judge will cause the results 10 be posted in the respective ooun- ties fp public places and make certif- cates of the same to the Secretary of State. The returns as thus sent to
 Montgomery are counted within fifteen
 days after the election in the presence of tbe Governor. the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. The Gov ernor gives notice of the results found and makes a declaration to that effect by proclamation.
 The Secretary of State will furnish to the nine representatives elected their certificates of election within ten days after the returns from the pro- bate judges are reccrved.
 The Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General or the Governor and either of the remaining officials in the absence of the other will inspect the
 returns on electors for President and vice-President The Governor will declare the election of the electors
 within fifteen days after the returns
 are received in the office of the Secre-
 tary of State.
 The eleven electors will assemble at
 the Capitol here on the first Wednes- day in December at 10 o'clock in the
 morning They will constitute them selves a body and formulate their votes. The officiaf certificate of their
 vote will be made out in .trfplicate. Under seal one copy will be entrusted
 to a messenger to be appointed by the electors who shall deliver it to the President of the United States Senate before the first ednesday in Janu- ary. The messenger will forfeit sf.0eo
 if he fails to deliver the vote at the
 proper time.
 A second copy of the Alabama elec-
 toral vote will be sent to the Judge
 of the United States Circuit Court ip
 Alabama. A third copy will be sent
 by mail to the President of the United
 States Senate.
 In no office at the Capitol has there
 been received any intiniation of A con-
 test for chancellors. circuit judges CtECuiI tACA ASs PROb~bC Jua6CS
 county treasurers, county superinten- dents of education or justGes of the peace in the dispute about succession Of the incumbents. The contests, il any are made, will be on the ground of the State code on elections, which pro- vi<ies. for instance. that the probate
 judges elected in 1898 should hold of flee until the third day in November next succeeding the election in 1904. The opinion of Attorney General 1 Massey Wilson will be accepted, 1t is believed. over the whole State. This I opinion was given to Acting Governor Cunningham several days ago. The | opinion briefly states that the present 1 incumbents of the several offices be. | fore mentioned shall continue until | their successors are elected and quail. l fled. This means that although thf | several officials now serving had served out the intended length of thei1 | terms anywhere from September 1 tc | November of this year they are stil I in office and will remain there until their successors are, elected November
 8 and qualify. which will be from if. teen to forty days after their eIectioni | have been officially declared.
 1 The justices of the peace were thS | only officers affected who were re. | quired to make extra bonds for the pc
 riod of service between September | and the qualification of their success sors named November 8.
 If any contest on these alleged de factions in the law will be made, off
 cials at the Capitol give 1t as theii
 opinion that they will most likely b, known by an injunction to stop th. pay of present incumbents who try tC l hold over until 1905. The plaintiff, would be the recently elected success 1 sorS.