LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1805.

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each candidate tallied thereon may be readily cast up and
known ; and if upon opening any of the said ballots there be
found any more names written or printed on any of them than
there ought to be, or if any two or more of such ballots or
papers be deceitfully folded together, or if the purpose for which
the vote is given is not plainly designated as within directed,
such ballots shall be rejected, and not counted.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That as soon as the ballots shall
be read off and counted, and the number for each candidate
reckoned up and ascertained, the judge or judges of the election
shall make out, under his or their hands, attested by the clerks
of the election, or one of them, on the books of the polls, two
plain, fair and distinct statements and certificates of the number
of votes which shall have been then and there given for each
candidate, distinguishing the station or office for which he has
been voted, which numbers shall be expressed in words at
length, and not in figures only, according to the form following,
or to the like effect, to wit: 'State of Maryland, —— county,
to wit : We, the undersigned, duly appointed by the levy court
of said county, or by a justice of the peace, or the voters, (as
the case may be,) in due form of law, judge or judges of the
elections in district, No. —— , do hereby certify and return that
we did attend on the —— Monday of —— , in the year eigh-
teen hundred and —— , at —— , the place by law appointed for
holding the elections within said district, and did then and there
appoint —— and —— clerks of the election, who severally
qualified as directed by law; we further certify, that we did
then and there, before a justice of the peace of said county, (or
before one of said clerks, as the case may be,) qualify as judge
or judges of the election, as by law directed, and did then and
there, at the hour of —— o'clock in the morning, open the
polls for an election for four delegates to represent said county
in the general assembly, (or —— as the case may be,) that we
continued the polls open until six o'clock in the evening of the
same day, when they were closed, the ballot box opened, and
the ballots publicly counted, when it appeared that —— had
votes as a delegate to the general assembly, (or —— , as the
case may be.) Given under our hands, at the place of said
election, this —— day of —— , in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and —— . Attested by —— —— , clerks.'

Judges to
make out
certificates
of the num-
ber of votet
given to
each candi-
date, &e. on
the books of
the polls.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the presiding judges of
elections, or in case of inability to attend, either of the other
judges, shall, on the second day after every election, (except in
cases of elections in the city of Baltimore, where the judges
shall meet on the day next succeeding the holding of, said elec-
tions,) under the penalty of five hundred dollars, meet at the
usual place of the sitting of the county court of each county,

Presiding ,
judges to
meet, &c.
and make
out state-
ments and .
certificates
of the num-
ber of votes
given for