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 the appointed place at the hour of four P. M. of the day prescribed for their meeting it shall be the duty of the other Electors immediately to proceed by ballot to supply such vacancy or vacancies."

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Seventy six, and of the independence of the United States the One Hundred and First.

P.G. Deslonde

Secry of State