262 ELECTIONS. [ART. 35.

24. No commissioned or non-commissioned officer having the
command of any soldier or soldiers quartered or posted in any
district of any county in this State, shall muster or embody any
of the said troops, or march any recruiting party within the view
of any place of election during the time of holding said election,
under the penalty of one hundred dollars. This section not to
apply to the city of Baltimore.

25. When the poll shall be closed, the box wherein the ballots

are deposited shall immediately thereafter be opened by the judge

or judges of the election, and the said judge or judges shall

publicly, in the presence of such persons as may choose to attend,

carefully take out the said ballots, and read distinctly and aloud

the name or names written or printed thereon respectively, and

the clerks of said election shall carefully enter and keep an

account of the same on the books of the polls, so that the

number of votes for each candidate tallied thereon may be readily

cast up and known.

26. 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 deceit-
fully folded together, or if the purpose for which the vote is given
is not plainly designated thereon, such ballot shall be rejected
and not counted.

27. 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 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.

28. The said numbers shall be expressed in words at length,
and not in figures only, according to the following form, or to the
like effect, to wit: "State of Maryland ————county, to wit:
We the undersigned, duly appointed by the county commis-
sioners 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 elec-
tion in this district, No. ———, do hereby certify and return
that we did attend on the ———— of ————, ———— at ————, the
place appointed by law for holding the elections within said dis-