ART. 33] BALLOTS. 875

1904, art. 33, sec. 51. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 47.

52. Whenever a proposed constitution or constitutional amendment
or other question is submitted for popular approval to the voters of
the State, the secretary of state shall duly, and not less than thirty
days before the election, certify the same to the supervisors of elections
in the counties and the city of Baltimore, and thereupon the said super-
visors shall include the same in the publication provided for in section
49 of this article. If questions of local concern are to be submitted for
approval to the vote of the people of a county or a municipality the
same shall be certified to said supervisors of elections within said period
by the county commissioners or the register of the city of Baltimore,
as the case may be, and shall be advertised as herein provided in the
case of nominees for county or city offices.

Cited but not construed in Board of Supervisors v. Todd, 97 Md. 261.

See sec. 57.

Ballots and Ballot-Boxes.

Ibid. sec. 52. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 48.

53. All ballots cast in elections for public officers within this State
shall be printed and distributed as hereinafter provided. The printing
of ballots and cards of instruction for the voters in each county and
the city of Baltimore, and the delivery of the same to the judges of
election as provided in this article shall be at public expense, the
payment of which shall be provided for by the several counties and the-
city of Baltimore, respectively. All ballot-boxes shall be constructed as
follows: Each box shall be one foot outside measure, as near as may
be, in width and length, and eighteen inches in depth, strapped and
secured on each edge and corner with brass mouldings, securely brazed
or soldered together at the junctions thereof, so as to prevent it from
being easily broken; it shall have a strong wooden lid, which shall be
fastened to the box with brass or iron hinges, not accessible from the
outside, and shall have a good Yale lock, there shall be a slit in the lid
just large enough to admit a single folded ballot at one time, and the
sides and bottom of the box shall be of clear plate glass not less than
one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Each such box, when not in actual
use at a polling place, shall be kept in a wooden case for the protection
of the same and its contents in the transportation and storage thereof.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 49. 1901, ch. 2.

54. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of elections of
each county and of the city of Baltimore to provide ballots for every
election for public officers held under this article in which any voters
within the county or said city shall participate, and cause to be printed
on the ballot the name of every candidate whose name has been certified
to or filed with the proper officers in the manner herein provided by
such political party organization or body of individuals; but the said
supervisors shall not be required to print any name upon a ballot if