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General election; when held.

SECTION

78. County Clerk to transmit copy of statement to Governor, Secretary of State and State Treasurer.

79. Certificate of determination to be delivered to persons elected.

80. Clerk to transmit list of Representatives and County officers to Secretary of State.

81. Votes for and against amendment to Constitution, how taken and canvassed.

82. On Banking Law, or amendments thereto. 83. District canvassers.

84. Quorum of Board.

85. Times and places of meeting.

86. Original statements to be laid before Board. 87. Proceedings of canvassers.

88. Board to determine persons elected, and deliver certificate to County Clerk.

89. Duty of County Clerk in relation to statement.

STATE CANVASS.

90. State canvassers.

91. Secretary of State to record statements; When to call on Governor and State Treasurer for statements.

92. When to call on County Clerk for statement. 93. Secretary to appoint meeting of Board, etc. 94, 95, 96. Duty of Board of State canvassers. 97. Secretary of State to record certificate of determination, and deliver copy to persons elected.

98. Votes for Electors of President, when and how canvassed.

99. Copy of certificate of determination to be delivered to persons elected.

100. Canvassers of votes on amendment to Constitution and Banking Law.

101. Board to ascertain and determine the result.

102. Determination to be recorded by Secretary of State. and published with Laws. 103. Publication of determination of State can

vassers.

104. Adjournment of State canvassers. ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF BOARD OF EDUCATION, REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS, ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, AND SENATORS. 105. Election of members of Board of Education.

106. Of Representative in Congress; Vacancy. 107. Of Electors of President and Vice President.

SECTION

108. Electors to convene at Capitol; How vacancy to be filled.

109. Duty of Secretary of State.

110, 129. When Senators in Congress to be elected.

111. Vacancy, how filled.

112. Manner of conducting election. 113. Evidence of election.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

114. Unorganized counties.

115. Oath of Inspectors and Clerks of elections. 116, 117. Compensation to certain officers. 118. No civil process to be served on electors on day of election.

119. Term of office; Term, when elected to fill vacancy.

ELECTION OF CIRCUIT JUDGES AND REGENTS OF THR UNIVERSITY.

120. When Circuit Judge and Regent to be elected, and for what term.

121. Duties of Inspectors of election. 122. Secretary of State to give notice to Sheriff. 123. Sheriffs to notify Township Clerks, etc.; Township Clerks to give notice.

124. Election, canvass, etc., to be same as at general election.

125. County canvass, when held; Statement when returned.

126. Board of State canvassers; Their duty; Proviso as to county of Wayne.

127. Commencement of term.

128. Oath to be tendered to person challenged; Form of oath.

129. Section repealed.

130. Secretary of State to record statement of votes given in the several counties.

ELECTIONS IN THE UPPER PENINSULA.

134. General election; Officers to be elected. 135. County and district canvassers. 136. When election of District Judge, District Attorney and Regent held, and how conducted.

137. Prosecuting Attorney to be elected in Upper Peninsula; When elected; Term of office; Powers and duties.

138. Manner of conducting elections, canvass, etc.; Prosecuting Attorney to be subject to general laws.

139. Office of District Attorney continued.

An Act to Provide for Holding General and Special Elections. (a)
[Approved June 27, 1851. Took effect Sept. 27, 1851. Laws of 1851, p. 281.]

(25.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That a general election shall be held in the several townships

(a) This act, it is believed, supersedes the whole of Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Revised Statutes of 1846.

elected.

3; Art. 8, Sec. 1;

and wards of this State on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, in the year eighteen hundred and fiftytwo, and on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, every second year thereafter, at which there shall be elected so many of the following officers as are to be chosen in such years respectively, that is to say: a Governor, Lieu- ofeers to be tenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Auditor General, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of the State Land Office, Members of the State Board of Education, Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Const. Art. 5, Sec. Senators and Representatives in the State Legislature, and Art. 18, Sec. 9. the following county officers, viz: Judges of Probate, Sheriffs, Clerks, Treasurers, Registers of Deeds, Prosecuting Attorneys, Art. 6, Sec. 13. and such other officers as may by law be required to be elected at such general election: Provided, the provisions of this section shall not apply to the election of the Senator and Representatives in the State Legislature, nor to the election of county officers, in that portion of the State denominated the Upper Peninsula, as described in section one, article nineteen of the Revised Constitution, and such other territory as may be attached thereto for election purposes. On the first Tuesday of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, there shall be elected a Governor and Lieutenant Governor, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and who shall hold their respective offices until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fiftythree, and until their successors are elected and qualified; which election shall be conducted in the manner provided by the Constitution and laws in force on the thirty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and fifty; and the returns and can-Schedule to vass of votes given thereon shall be proceeded and determined in the same manner herein provided for the same officers to be elected at general biennial elections.

Const. Sec. 5.

(26.) SEC. 2. Special elections may be held in the following In what cases cases, and for the election of the following officers, viz.:

1. When a vacancy shall occur in the office of Senator or Representative in the State Legislature, Representative in Congress, Judge of the Circuit or District Court, Regent of the University, or member of the State Board of Education;

2. When there has been no choice at a general election of Representative in Congress;

3. When the right of office of a person elected to any of

special elections may be held.

When vacancies may be filled at

the aforesaid district or county offices shall cease before the commencement of the term of service for which he shall have been elected;

4. When a vacancy shall occur in either of the said county offices after the commencement of the term of service, and more than six months before the next general election;

5. When, in any other case of a vacancy not particularly provided for in this section, the Governor shall in his discretion so direct.

(27.) SEC. 3. A vacancy in either of the offices named in the general election. first section of this act, which shall not have been supplied before a general election, may be supplied at such election. When special (28.) SEC. 4. No special election shall be held within three months next preceding a general election, except in cases where the Governor shall order a special election.

elections not to be held.

dered by Board

When to be or- (29.) SEC. 5. Special elections for the choice of the county. of Supervisors. officers named in section one of this act, shall, except in cases in which a special election is to be ordered by the Governor, be ordered by the Board of Supervisors.

be held one day only.

Persons having

greatest number

etected.

Election of Electors of President and Vive President.

(30.) SEC. 6. Special elections shall be held and continued one day only, and shall be conducted, and the result thereof canvassed and certified in all respects, as near as may be, in like manner as general elections, except as otherwise directed.

(31.) SEC. 7. In elections for the choice of all officers named af votes deemed in the first section of this act, the persons having the greatest number of votes shall be deemed to have been duly elected. (32.) SEC. 8. Whenever the time fixed by the law of Congress for the election of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, shall not occur on the day appointed for holding the general election, such election for Electors of President and Vice President shall be held on the day so fixed by the law of Congress therefor.

D.

(33.) SEC. 9. All the provisions of law relating to the notifying and holding of the general elections, and the election of Electors of President and Vice President thereat, shall apply to every such election held pursuant to the provisions of the preceding section; and the votes given for such Electors shall be returned and canvassed, and the result determined in the same manner in all respects, and with the like effect, as in case of the election of such Electors at a general election. (34.) SEC. 10. When a vacancy shall occur in the office of certain offices. Judge of the Circuit Court, Regent of the University, or member of the State Board of Education, thirty days or more

Notice of supplying vacancies in

before a general election, the Secretary of State shall, at least twenty days before such election, cause a written notice to be sent to the Sheriff of each of the counties within the election district in which such vacancy may occur; which notice shall state in which office the vacancy occurred, and that such vacancy will be supplied at the next general election.

tions.

(35.) SEC. 11. The Secretary of State shall, between the of general elecfirst day of July and the first day of September preceding a general election, direct and cause to be delivered to the Sheriff of each county in this State, a notice in writing that at the next general election there will be chosen as many of the following officers as are to be elected at such general election, viz. a Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Auditor General, Attorney General, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of the State Land Office, members of the State Board of Education, Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, and a Representative in Congress for the district to which each of such counties shall belong.

Senators and

(36.) SEC. 12. He shall also, between the first day of July of elections of and the first day of September preceding such election, direct Representatives. and cause to be delivered to the Sheriff of each county a notice in writing, stating the number of Senators and Representatives to be elected in such county, specifying the number of each district, and the limits of such district, when the county alone does not constitute a senatorial or representative district or districts.

tions.

(37.) SEC. 13. Whenever a special election shall be ordered of special elecby the Governor to fill any vacancy, the Secretary of State shall immediately notify the Sheriff of each of the counties embraced in said election district, of the time of holding such election, the cause of such vacancy, the name of the officer, and the time when his term of office will expire.

Supervisors in

to be filled.

(38.) SEC. 14. When the Board of Supervisors of a county Duty of Board of shall order a special election to fill a vacancy in any office, ordering vacancy such order shall be in writing and signed by the chairman and clerk of the board, and shall specify how the vacancy occurred; the name of the officer in whose office it occurred; the time when his term of office will expire, and the day on which such special election shall be held, not being more than forty nor less than thirty days from the making of such order; and such clerk shall, without delay, cause a copy of such order to be delivered to the township clerk of each township, and to one

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