1883 public laws – Ch.407 Sec.2
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CHAPTER 407 An act to perfect the machinery for counting the votes for senator in the counties of Warren and Vauce. T he General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That three days after the result of any election for senator shall be declared at the court house in the counties of Vance and Warren respectively, the sheriffs of said counties shall meet at the first election .held after the passage of this act at the court house in the county of Warren, and the next election thereafter: at the court house in the county of Vance, and thereafter alternately at the respective court houses of said counties, and compare the votes of the counties of Vance and Warren for senator, and declare the result at the court house door of the county where they meet, and sign and deliver the certificates of election to the senator entitled thereto.