Section 17-13-7

Certificate of votes delivered to probate judge of each county to be forwarded.

The board of supervisors must, as soon as they have ascertained the result of an election, make on blanks furnished by the Secretary of State certificates stating the exact number of votes cast in the county by precincts for each person voted for and the office for which such person was voted for, and file the certificates with the judge of probate who must immediately forward such certificate as to all members of the Legislature and to all civil officers who are to be commissioned by the Governor, except the Attorney General, Auditor, Secretary of State, Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, to the Secretary of State.

(Code 1876, §292; Code 1886, §389; Code 1896, §1646; Code 1907, §435; Code 1923, §525; Code 1949, T. 17, §209; Acts 1988, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88-908, p. 482, §1.)