| 1805.
CHAP. 97. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
voter shall deliver to the judge or judges of the election in the district
in which he offers to vote, a ballot, on which shall be written,
or printed, the name or names of the person or persons voted for,
and the purpose for which the vote is given, plainly designated, and
the ballot so delivered in, and received by the judge or judges of
the election, shall be deposited in the ballot box till the poll be
closed; and if any judge of an election, or other person, after any
ballot shall be delivered in as aforesaid, and before the poll is closed,
shall unfold or open any such ballot, with design to discover
the name or names therein contained, every person so offending
shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars; and if any voter shall
offer any more than one ballot, with a fraudulent design, every
such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars for every
such offence. |
When the poll is
closed, judges to
open the box publicly,
&c. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the poll
shall be closed,
the box wherein the ballots are deposited shall be immediately thereafter
opened by the judge or judges of the election, and the said
judge or judges shall publicly, in the presence of such person 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 such 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; 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. |
Judges to make
out certificates of
the number of
votes given to
each candidate,
&c. on the books
of the polls. |
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 eighteen 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 |
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