PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1111

ferred upon judges of election under section 60 and section
100 of Chapter 202 of the Acts of 1896 of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland.

And each clerk of election shall keep a poll book containing
a column headed "'Number'' and another headed "Name of
Voter." All entries therein shall be made in ink, and the
number and name of each person to whom ballot is given
shall be entered on each of the poll books by the clerks having
charge thereof in regular succession under the proper heading,
the number of each voter being placed opposite his name in
the column headed "Number," but if the vote of any person
whose name has been entered on the poll books shall be after-
wards rejected by the judges, the clerks shall thereupon draw
a line through his name and number and continue said list,
if there be any other voters, as if the same had not been
entered.

SEC. 200. The voting at said elections for Mayor and
City Councilmen, or upon any proposition submitted to the
qualified voters of said town, shall commence at eight o'clock
A. M. and continue until seven o'clock P. M. as hereinbefore
provided; and after the inspection of the ballot box and tickets
by the judges and clerks of election and the ballot box shall
have been locked, which shall not again be opened until the
polls close, all qualified voters of the said town offering to vote
and whose names appear upon the said registration books shall
be furnished an official ballot with the initials of one of the
judges thereon, after having answered such questions relating
to his identity and right to vote as the judges of election may
think proper, and repair to one of the booths or compartments
provided for voters and mark his ballot with the pencil therein
provided and as hereinbefore required, when he shall fold his
ticket without displaying the marks thereon, and return it to
one of the judges of election, who shall deposit it in the ballot
box; provided, however, that any voter who shall spoil a ballot
so he cannot vote it may, on returning said spoiled ballot to
the judge holding the ballots, receive another in its stead; and
should he spoil the second ballot, he shall upon returning the
same to the officer aforesaid, be entitled to receive a third
. ballot, which said spoiled ballots shall be immediately can-
celled by endorsing thereon the word "spoiled," which ballots
shall be preserved and included in the election returns. Every
voter who does not vote the ballot delivered to him shall,
before leaving the polling place, return such ballot to the
judge from whom he received it, and said returned ballot shall