Section 17-12-21
Certificates of election to members of Congress and legislators.
The Secretary of State shall, within 10 days after receiving the returns of election from the judge of probate of each county, furnish, from a count of the actual vote cast, as the same appears by the returns certified to him or her, certificates of election to members of the Legislature and to members of Congress.
(Code 1876, §294; Code 1886, §393; Code 1896, §1650; Code 1907, §426; Code 1923, §516; Code 1940, T. 17, §205; §17-14-24; amended and renumbered by Act 2006-570, p. 1331, §56.)