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Court, shall destroy the same, and shall record among the land
records of his office, a certificate of the fact, signed by said jus-
tice or justices.

41. No ballot thus returned shall be given by the clerk to any
person, except as hereinafter directed ; but any person interested
therein, shall have the privilege of inspecting said ballots in the
presence of said clerks.

42. The several county clerks, and the clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, with whom the said certificates are
lodged, shall each, under the penalty of one hundred dollars,
make out a true copy of the said certificate of all the votes
lodged with him by the judges, under the seal of his office, within
five days after the same shall be so deposited, and shall enclose
and seal up the same, directed to the officers to whom they are
respectively certified and addressed, endorsed on public service,
and shall place the same in the post office, to be transmitted
according to their direction, except the certificate of the election
of Governor, which shall be directed to the Secretary of State.

43. The said clerks shall endorse on the certificate and polls
to be delivered to them as aforesaid, the day when received; and
shall be allowed as a compensation for making out and forward-
ing the copies of the said certificates, the same compensation
allowed for like services, to be levied and paid by the county or
city of Baltimore.

44. The judges of election appointed from time to time by the
Board of Police of the City of Baltimore, for elections for choosing
members of the city council, shall be judges of election of all
elections held in said city; and shall in all respects, as to time
and manner of holding said elections, and ascertaining and de-
claring the persons elected, pursue and observe, under the penal-
ties hereinbefore imposed on the other judges of elections, the
several rules and regulations herein prescribed to the several
judges of elections in the counties, in relation to similar
elections.

45. The sheriffs in the several counties shall respectively be
allowed the sum of twelve dollars for each election held in this
county, for the performance of the duties herein required, to be
levied as other county charges; Provided, that when two or more