Year: 1868

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votes of all officers voted for at such election ex-
cept Electors of President and Vice-President


XXXV. The Secretary Of State, Comptroller
General, Attorney General and Treasurer shall con-
stitute the State Canvassers, three Of whom shall
be sufficient number to form Board.


XXXVI. Ifa majority of those officers shall be
unable, or shall fail to attend, one of tho Justices
of the Supreme Court and the Mayor Of The city Of
Columbia, being notified by the Secretary Of State,
shall attend without delay, and, with the officer at
tending, shall form the Board.


XXXVII The Board, when thus formed, shall,
upon the certified copies of the statements made
by the Boards of County Canvassers, proceed to
make q statement of the whole number Of votes
given at such election for the various eihces, and
each of them voted for, Distinguishing the several
Counties in which they were given. They shall
certify such statements to be correct and subscribe
the same with their proper names.


XXXVIL. Upon such statements, they shall
then proceed to determine and declare what per-
sons have been, by the greatest number of votes,
duly elected to such officers, or either Of them.
xxx. They shall make and subscribe, on
the proper statement, certificate of such deter
mination, and shall deliver the same to the Secre-
tary of State. ...,t."
XL The Board shall have the power to ad-
journ from day to day, for term not exceeding
FIVE days. .. ..... ..... .,...-..-.a
Kill The Secretary of State shall record in his
Office, in book to be kept by him for that pur-
pose, each certified statement and determination
which shall be delivered to him by the Board of
State Canvassers, and every dissent or protest
that shall have been delivered to him bya Canvas
ser. ,.... ..-. ..


KILL BE shall, without delay, transmit copy,
under the seal of his Office Of such certified deter
mination to each person thereby declared to be E.
lected and like copy to the Governor.


XLIII. He shall cause copy of such certified
statements and determinations to be printed in one
or more of the public newspapers in each county,
if any shall be published therein.


Xiv. He shall prepare general certificate,
under the seal of the State, and attested by him
Secretary therof, addressed to the House of Rep
resentatives of the United States in that Congress
for which any person shall have been chosen, OF
the due election of the persons so chosen at such
election as Representatives of this State in Con-
gress and shall transmit the same to thesaid House
of Representatives at their first meeting.


XIV. The Secretary of State shall enter in a
book, to be kept in his Office, the names of the
respective county officers elected in this State,
specifying the counties for which they were seve-
rally elected and their place Of residence, the Office
for which they were respectively elected, and their
term of Office. ..--.
OF THE ELECTION OF ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND
vICE-PREsIDENT.


XLVI. At the next general election provided
for in this Act, there shall be elected, BY general
ticket, as many Electors of President and Vice
President as this State shall be entitled to appoint
and each Elector in this State shall have right to
vote for the whole number of such Electors; and
the several persons, to the number required to be
chosen, having the highest number Of votes, shall
be declared and deemed duly appointed Electors.


XLVII The Commissioners of Elections ofeach
county shall make four certified copies of the state
ment of the votes given for Electors in their coun-
ty, one of which copies shall be fled in the Office
of the Clerk of the county, if there be such Clerk
duly qualified by law another of such copies they
shall forthwith transmit to the Governor, another
to the Secretary of State, and deliver the other as
hereinafter directed. ....


XLVIII. The Commissioners Of Election Of
each county shall appoint messenger, and shall
deliver to such messenger the remaining certified
copy of the statement of the votes given in their
county for electors, securely enclosed and under
SEAL and such messenger shall proceed forthwith to
deliver the same to the Secretary of State.


XIX. The Board of State Canvassers shall
meet at the Office of the Secretary of State on the
Wednesday next after the third Monday of No
yember next after such election, or sooner, If all
the certified copies of the statements Of the Coun-
ty Canvassers shall have been received from all the
counties to canvass the votes given for the Electors
of President and Vice President; and in case all
the certified statements shall not have been receiv-
ed on that day, the Board may adjourn, from day
to day, until the same shall have been received,
not exceeding five days; and if at the expiration
of four days certified copies of the statements OF
the County Canvassers shall not have been receiV-
ed from any county, the Board shall proceed to
canvass upon such of the said statements as shall
have been received.


L. The Board of State Canvassers shall proceed
in making statement of all the votes, and deter
mining and certifying the persons elected, in the
manner prescribed by law in relation to the election
of other officers.


Ii. The Secretary of State shall, without delay,
cause copy, under the seal of his Office, of the
certified determination of the Board Of State Can
vassers to be delivered to each of the persons there
in declared to be elected and for that purpose he
may employ such and so many messengers as he
shall deem necessary.


LII. The determination and certificate Of the
Board of State Canvassers in relation of the choice
of Electors shall be published in the same manner
as herein provided in relation to the certificates Of
the election of other officers.


LII. IF any of the messengers shall be guilty
of destroying the certificates entrusted to their care
or of wilfully doing any act that shall defeat the
due delivery of them as directed by this Act, he
shall be punished by imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary at hard labor, for term not less than two
nor exceeding four years, and if any person shall
be found guilty of taking away from any of the said
messengers, either by force or in any other manner
any such certificate entrusted to bis care or of viii
fully doing any act that shall defeat the due de-


livery thereof as directed by this Act, he shall be
punished by imprisonment in the pententiary a,
hard labor for not less than two nor exceeding foul
i years