certify that said new books contain all the names of the persons entitled to vote in such newly established district or precinct, such said certificate shall appear on the blank line next following the last name in each letter of the alphabetical list of names in the new books so transcribed, and such certificates shall be attested by the clerk to the respective Boards of Supervisors. Said Boards of Supervisors shall furnish to the officers of registration and judges of election, appointed by them for such new additional voting precincts, full and complete sets of registry books, containing the names of all voters already registered, duly and properly arranged for such additional voting precincts, and for the entering upon such registry books persons entitled to be newly registered thereon; the cost of such subdivision and preparation of proper registry books shall be paid by the County Commissioners of the counties in which such subdivisions shall be made upon proper requisition and vouchers presented by the Boards of Supervisors of Elections. The boundaries of said additional precincts established under this section shall be made known by advertisement in two newspapers in said counties, once a week for three successive weeks, before the first day of September in each year in which subdivision is made. Said newspapers to be designated as provided in other cases under this Article where advertisements are required to be made in at least two newspapers. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 126. The Board of Supervisors of Elections in the city of Baltimore shall, moreover, in every year in which such 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 a sufficient number of copies of such maps to the officers of registration of each precinct, who shall keep one or more copies of such maps conspicuously posted in the offices of registration during their sittings, and the said board shall furnish copies of such maps to any person who shall apply for the same, and pay fifty cents for each map so furnished him. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 127. All contested elections for Comptroller of the Treasury, Judge, Clerks of the Courts of Law, and Registers of Wills shall be decided by the House of Delegates, and testimony in such cases shall be taken in the same manner as herein prescribed in the contested seats in the Senate and House of Delegates. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 128. All cases of contested elections of any of the officers not provided in the Constitution, or in the preceding sections shall be decided by the Judges of the several Circuit Courts, each in his respective circuit, and by the Superior Court of Baltimore city, in the city of Baltimore. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1996. 129. 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 satisfactory, 7 but the rules of taking testimony in such cases shall be the same as those which regulate the taking of testimony in contested election cases recognizable by the House of Delegates. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 130. If either party shall deem himself aggrieved by the decision of any of the Circuit Courts or the Supreme Court of Baltimore city in eases of contested elections he shall have a right of appeal to the Court of Appeals, as in other cases; 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 transmission of the record as may be practicable, and the testimony taken in such cases shall be sent up to the Court of Appeals as part of the record. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 131. The party intending to contest an election for the Senate or House of Delegates shall give notice of such intention to the person elected, or, in case of a tie vote, to the person against whom the 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 fill a vacancy, when such notice shall be given within ten days after the state of the polls is announced by the judges of election. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 132. Such notices shall be delivered in writing at the usual residences of the person returned, and if he be absent shall be left there. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 133. The party intending to make examination shall, after such notice, apply to some justice of the peace of the county or city wherein the election is contested, and shall obtain a notice under his hand and seal, directed to the opposite party, requiring him to attend in person or by attorney and cross-examine witnesses. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 134. The justice in such cases shall have the usual power to coerce the attendance of witnesses. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 135. The notice of the justice shall contain the names of the witnesses with the facts expected to be proven by them, and shall state the time and place of examination, and shall be served on the opposite party or his attorney at least ten days previous to the proposed examination. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 136. Every person deposing shall be examined on oath, and his testimony shall be reduced to writing, either by himself, in the presence of the justice, or by the justice, or by a clerk by him appointed and sworn fairly to write down and transcribe the depositions, and shall be transscribed by the deponent. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 137. The depositions so taken, together with a certificate of the notices, and proof 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. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 138. The examination of witnesses, taken in the manner herein prescribed, and in no other, shall hereafter be admitted on trial of contested elections. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 139. 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 manuer as the originals would be if pro duced. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 140. The copies of any other papers of a public nature, and remaining in possession of a 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 admitted as evidence. CHAPTER 133, ACTS OF 1902. 141. The Board of Police Commissioners in the city of Baltimore and the Clerks of 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 testimony may be proposed to be taken before a justice of the peace taking depositions in a contested election, and shall furnish said justice copies of the same only on the order first had and obtained from some of the courts of Baltimore city or 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 restrictions; and said Police Commissioners of Baltimore city, and said clerks as the case may be, shall retain such ballots in possession and custody until such balots shall 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 Delegates, or by order of the First Branch or Second Branch of the City Council of Baltimore, in whichever the seat is contested. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 142. The justice before whom such depositions 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 entitled to the usual allowance for their attendance before a justice of the peace, to be paid by the party on whose behalf such examination is held and said witnesses are summoned. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 143. No person contesting a seat of any one who has been regularly returned by the judges of election as elected to a seat in the Senate or House of Delegates shall be allowed any per diem, mileage or other pay, unless the party so contesting shall establish his right to such seat. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 144. 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 shall be entitled to appoint. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 145. Each citizen of this State entitled to vote for delegates to the General Assembly shall have the right to vote for the whole number of electors; and the several persons, to the number required to be chosen, having the highest number of votes, shall be declared and deemed duly appointd electors. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 146. If any of the persons voted for as electors shall have an equal number of votes so as to defeat a choice between them, the Governor shall determine by lot which of the persons having such equal number of votes shall be electors, so as to complete the whole number to which the State shall be entitled. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 147. The said election shall in all respects be conducted as other elections, and the returns thereof made and canvassed as herein before directed. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 148. Upon the meeting of the persons returned elected as electors of President 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 who are present, before proceeding to perform the duties reposed in them shall fill any vacancy which may exist in the said college of electors, at such meeting, whether such vacancy be occasioned by absence or otherwise; and the said person 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 of President and Vice-President of the United States. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 149. The electors for this State shall meet in the State House, in the city of Annapolis, and give their votes for President and Vice-President of the United States at the hour of noon upon the first Wednesday in December, in the year in which they are appointed. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 150. 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 taking place every second year thereafter. CHAPTER 202, ACTS OF 1896. 151. If a vacancy should occur by death, resignation or otherwise, at such period as to make it necessary that a representative or Representa tives in Congress from this State should be chosen before the regular time for such election, the Governor shall by proclamation direct that a special election be held to fill such vacancy, which proclamation shall require at least twenty days' notice of such election to be given by the Supervisors of Elections to the sheriffs of the respective counties or city of Baltimore, comprising the Congressional district in which such vacancy may exist. CHAPTER 136, ACTS OF 1902. 152. This State shall be divided into six districts for the choosing of six Representatives in the Congress of the United States, which will be numbered, respectively, from one to six. CHAPTER 136, ACTS OF 1902. 153. The First Congressional District shall be composed of Woreester County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Dorchester County, Talbot County, Queen Anne's County, Caroline County, Kent County and Cecil County, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives. CHAPTER 136, ACTS OF 1902. 154. The Second Congressional District shall be composed of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards of Baltimore city, as said wards are numbered by the Act of 1901, chapter 8, of Harford County, Carroll County and Baltimore County, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives. CHAPTER 136, ACTS OF 1902. 155. The Third Congressional District shall be composed of the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Twenty-second wards of Baltimore city, and the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Thirteenth Election Precincts of the Eighteenth Ward of Baltimore city, as said wards are numbered by the Act of 1901, chapter 8, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives. CHAPTER 136, ACTS OF 1902. 156. The Fourth Congressional District shall be composed of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Fourteenth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth wards of Baltimore city, and the First, Second, Third and Twelfth Election Precincts of the Eighteenth Ward of Baltimore city, as said wards are numbered by the Act of 1901, chapter 8, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives. CHAPTER 136, ACTS OF 1902. 157. The Fifth Congressional District shall be composed of the Twenty-first, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth wards of Baltimore city, and the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Election Precincts of the Eighteenth Ward of Baltimore eity, as said wards are numbered by the Act of 1901, chapter 8, and of St. Mary's County, Charles County, Calvert County, Prince George's County, Anne Arundel County, and Howard County, and shall be entitled to choose one Representative in the House of Representatives. |