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Proceedings of the Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in Maryland, 1789-1980
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114                                   1856.

Leary (another of the Electors) to be by him conveyed and
delivered to the Judge of the District Court of the United
States for the District of Maryland.
        On motion of Mr. Swann the following form of
credential was read and adopted and the blank
filled with the name of Chapman Harwood.
                State of Maryland to wit:
        To all persons whom it may concern, know ye that
we the Electors of President and Vice President of the
United States of America duly elected in and for the
State of Maryland having met at the City of Annapolis
on the day prescribed by the Constitution and laws of
the United States to perform the trust reposed in us
and having voted and made out in due form certificates
and lists of the votes given and the persons
voted for and having confidence in
                Esq. of A. A. County have appointed and
be these presents do appoint an authorise him to
take charge of one of said certificates and lists and
with all convenient despatch to convey and deliver
the same to the President of the Senate of the United
States at Washington.
        In witness whereof we have hereto set our hands
and seals this third day of December in the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-six.




        The said credential was accordingly prepared in
due form by the Secretary and signed and sealed
by the Electors.  Whereupon the President delivered
it with the other (the third) Electoral Certificate to
Chapman Harwood with the direction to convey
it with all convenient despatch befor the first
Wednesday in January next ensuing to the President
of the Senate of the United States at Washington
and in the event of their being no President of the


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