PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1087

arranged alphabetically on said ballot. The commissioners shall
deliver, or. cause to be delivered, at each polling place on the
day of said election to the judges of election before, the open-
ing hour, the said registries of voters and a sufficient number
of the said official ballots, not less, however, than twice the
number of registered voters at each polling place or ward, and
one of such ballots shall be handed by the judges of election to
the voters as they shall apply for them for the purpose of voting
and shall be accepted by the judges or counted in canvassing the
vote provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent
candidates for the various offices to have sample ballots, to be
provided for at their own expense, for instructing the voters.
After each name on said ballot and to the right thereof, shall
be a square upon which the voter shall make a cross-mark to
indicate the candidate of his choice. If any voter cannot read
or write, or is disabled by reason of any physical infirmity,
he may ask one of the judges of election to mark his'ballot as
he desires. When a voter offers to vote the judges shall ascer-
tain by reference if his name is on the registry of voters.

In every election, whether such election by the regular elec-
tion or any special election, the polls shall be opened at noon
and closed at 5 P. M. In all elections to ascertain the sense of
the qualified voters of the town as to the passage of any ordi-
nance or ordinances the election shall be held by wards and all
the polls shall be opened at 2 P. M., and closed at 5 P. M., on
the day appointed for such election.

Clerics and Judges of Election.

48. Within the 20 days next preceding any primary elec-
tion or any special election held under this article, the commis-
sioners shall appoint two clerks and two judges of elections in
each ward in which such election is to be held, who shall serve
as such at said primary election and at the general election to
follow in the wards for which they are respectively appointed
of whom one judge and one clerk of election shall be of differ-
ent political party from the others, one of said judges shall also
be designated, at the time of appointment, as return judge. At
the time of the appointment of the judges and clerks of elec-
tion, the commissioners shall also name a polling place in each
ward. The commissioners shall publish in one or more news-
papers published in Cambridge the names of the judges and
clerks of election, the polling place in each ward and the date
and object of the election; said notice shall be published at
least twice before each election and the last publication shall
not be more than ten nor less than five days before the day of