HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1401

Public General Laws of Maryland (1924 Edition), be and
it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

91. The said Board of Canvassers shall then transmit the
said statements made by them, attested by the signature of
their chairman and secretary, to the clerk of the circuit court
for the county or to the clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-
more City, as the case may be, who shall enter the same of
record, provided that in ail elections where votes have been
cast for candidates for any county offices by the "writing in"
of such candidates names on the ballots, it shall not be neces-
sary for the Board of Canvassers to transmit a statement of
returns as to such "write in" candidates except as to those
"write in" candidates whose votes shall amount to at least one
per centum of the total votes east for the office for which such
person is a candidate, unless the total number of votes cast for
such "write in" candidate shall constitute a plurality of all
votes cast for candidates for such office, in which event a state-
ment of returns shall be transmitted by said Board. In case
of all elections of Presidential electors, Representatives in
Congress, Senators and Delegates to the General Assembly and
of other State officers except Governor or State's Attorney, the
said clerk shall prepare three certified copies under his seal of
office of said statements and certificates. Within five days
after the adjournment of the Board of Canvassers the said
clerk shall deposit the said certified copies in the nearest post-
office, addressed respectively to the Governor, to the Secretary
of State and to the Treasurer. The statement of the votes for
Governor after being recorded shall be transmitted by the
clerk to the Secretary of State, as provided in the constitu-
tion. The said clerk shall make out and deliver to each person
having the highest number of votes for the several county and
city offices a certificate of election on his application. The said
Canvassing Board shall also make a statement of the whole
number of votes given in each precinct and county or city,
with the names of the candidates and the number of votes given
for each in tabular form, and shall cause a copy of such state-
ment to be forthwith published in one or more of the news-
papers printed in the county or in the City of Baltimore;
provided, such official statement be so published without
charge.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1939.

Approved May 24, 1939.