Chap. 172.—JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the Time for Making Return
of the Election held the 26th day of May, 1870.

Approved June 18, 1870.

W hereas, at the election held the twenty-sixth day of May,
eighteen hundred and seventy, the judges of election appointed
for certain voting places failed to make return thereof at the
time appointed by law: be it

Resolved by the general assembly, That the judges of elec-
tion aforesaid, shall be authorized to make return of the same,
in the manner prescribed in section thirty-nine of the act ap-
proved May eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled
an act to provide for a general election, on such day within
thirty days from the day of said general election, as the com-
missioners, designated by their county or corporation court to
canvass the returns of their county or corporation, may fix
upon, and the said commissioners shall be authorized, on the
day thus appointed, to meet at the clerk’s office of the county
or corporation court and canvass the returns thus made, in the
manner prescribed in section forty of the act aforesaid; and
such return and canvass shall be deemed as legal and valid as
if originally done in conformity with that act.