ART. 33] DUTIES OF SUPERVISORS AND JUDGES. 883

deliver or cause the same to be delivered to the judges of election of
the respective precincts at or before the opening of the polls on the
day of election. Said boards of supervisors shall keep a record of the
time when such deliveries are made by them and of the particulars
thereof. The supervisors of elections of the several counties shall, not
more than three days prior to every election and not less than one, make
up into sealed packages for each precinct the two registers for said
precinct, together with the cards of instruction and the key of the
ballot box for such precinct, having first placed in the ballot box one
of the sealed packages of ballots for said precinct, the specimen ballots,
the two poll books, and all blanks, indelible pencils and stationery
required for such elections, and shall deliver or cause the same to be
delivered to the judges of election of the respective precincts at or
before the end of the day preceding the day of election. Said boards of
supervisors of elections of the several counties shall also at the same
time, that is to say, at or before the end of the day preceding the day
of election, deliver to the judges of election of the several precincts or
districts the other sealed package of tickets mentioned in section 60,
said board of supervisors of elections shall in like manner keep a record
of the time when such deliveries are made by them, and of the particu-
lars thereof. Said several boards of supervisors in the counties are
hereby respectively authorized and directed to make adequate provision
for the performance of the duty imposed upon them by this section,
and the county commissioners of the several counties shall pay the
expenses incurred in the performance thereof. Should said boards of
supervisors fail or neglect to make the delivery by the time prescribed
by this section, it shall be the duty of the judge, designated beforehand
by the supervisors, to take charge of the ballot-box, as provided in
section 77 of this article, to immediately send to the supervisors therefor,
and to obtain the same as soon as practicable, in order that the election
may be duly held, the cost hereby incurred to be paid by the county
commissioners as a part of the election expenses. For failure or neglect
on the part of the supervisors of elections, the board of police commis-
sioners, or any person employed by them respectively in the discharge
of the duties required of them by this section, or said judges, or any
person employed by them to perform the duties imposed upon them
respectively by this section, they shall respectively be subject to indict-
ment for a misdemeanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be subject
to the penalties prescribed by section 96 of this article.

1904, art 33, sec. 60. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 55.

62. The judges of elections and each of them, shall have authoritv
to keep the peace and to cause any person to be arrested for any breach
of the peace, or for any breach of the election laws, or any interference
with the progress of an election, or of the canvass of the ballots; and
it shall be the duty of all officers of the law present to obey the order
of any judge of election, and an officer making an arrest by the direction