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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
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Extract from the Poll Books returned by the Judges of
Election of the Tenth Election District of Somerset coun-
ty, at the Election held on the twelfth and thirteenth of
October, A. D., 1864.
STATE OF MARYLAND, Somerset County, to wit:
We the undersigned duly appointed by the Commissioners
of said county, in due form of law Judges of Election in
District No. Ten, do certify and return, that we attended on
the twelfth and thirteenth days of October, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four,, at the Witch Bridge, the place appointed by
law for holding the election within said district, and did
then and there appoint Soren Barbon and Charles R. Ross,
Clerks of the election, who severally qualified as directed by
law. We further certify, that we did then and there, before
a Justice of the Peace of said county,
qualify as Judges of Election as by law directed, and then
and there at the hour of eight o'clock in the morning, open
the Polls for an election for the purpose of expressing the
sense of the people upon the adoption or rejection of the New
Constitution and form of Government for the State of Mary-
land, that we continued the polls open until five o'clock in
the evening of the same day when we adjourned until eight
o'clock, A. M., of the next day; that we again opened the
polls, on the morning of the next day, at eight o'clock, and
continued them open until five o'clock in the evening of the
same day, when they were closed, the ballot box opened and
the ballots publicly counted, when it appeared that "For the
Constitution," had eight votes, and "Against the Constitu-
tion," had seventy-four votes.
And we the undersigned, Judges of Election do hereby
certify that we administered to every voter who polled at this
election, the oath required by the New Constitution, to be
administered to the voters.
WM EDGAR JONES, )
WILLIAM W. MILLS, } Judges.
GEO. T. RENSHAW. }
SOREN BARBON, ) Clerks
CHARLES R. Ross.)-
STATE OF MARYLAND, Somerset County, set:
I hereby certify that the within is a true extract from the
poll books, returned by the Judges of Election of the tenth

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