28 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 2]

without requiring any evidence to be taken or proof submitted,
to review the actions of the Judges of Elections and recount
the ballots in the precincts named in said petition in said county,
city, legislative district, ward or other political division thereof
as the case may be.

Said review, recount and recanvass shall be had with all
possible expedition and dispatch and in preference to all other
business under such mode of procedure as the Supervisors of
Elections shall prescribe by means of tellers appointed by them
on the recommendation of and with equal representation to the
opposing candidates. The said supervisors to pass upon and
decide whether any ballot contested by the teller for either
side shall be rejected or counted. They shall sit for said pur-
pose in the court room of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
or of the Circuit Court for the county as the case may be every
day, including Saturdays, at least from nine o'clock A. M. to
five o'clock P. M., with one hour's intermission for lunch
until said review, recount and recanvass is completed. Said
recount shall be had in the presence of the candidates or their
representatives and of the press and general public. Upon the
completion of said recount and recanvass the said Supervisors
shall award the costs of the same as follows:

If the result in such comity, municipality, legislative district
or other district or political division as returned by the judges
of election is changed thereby or if there is a change thereby of
two per cent, of the total votes recounted the costs shall be
awarded against the municipality or county in which said
recount is held. But if the result in such county, municipality
or legislative district or other political division is not changed
thereby nor two per cent, or more of the votes therein recounted
is found to have been erroneously counted, then the costs shall
be awarded against the petitioner, and his bond, if given as
above, shall be liable therefor.

In case said petition only specifies a part of the precincts in
which the petitioner was voted for and if on completion of said
review and recount of such specified precincts the result of the
count of the judges of election in said county, municipality, dis-
trict or other political division is thereby changed, then the
opposing candidate thus affected may appeal within two days
of the said determination, to said Supervisors of Elections from
the action and decision of the judges of election in counting the
ballots in the remaining precincts of said county, municipality,
ward, legislative district or other political division in which he
was voted for and ask them to recount and recanvass said
remaining precincts, which they shall immediately proceed to