ART. 33] SENATORIAL PRIMARIES. 953

to the judge appointed to receive the same, who shall immediately
deposit it in the ballot box. In counting the ballots no ballot shall be
rejected because the cross mark projects beyond the lines of the square
at the right of the name of the candidate voted for, and no ballot shall
be counted where the voter has made a cross mark to the right of the
name of more than one candidate for United States senator. All
ballots cast in said elections must be carefully preserved for thirty
days after the election by the state central committee of each party
aforesaid for the several counties and legislative districts of Baltimore
city.

1908, ch. 400, sec. 6.

207. The expenses of conducting said primary election of each
political party aforesaid, in each county and legislative district afore-
said, shall be defrayed by the state central committee of each of said
parties and the several committees for the several counties and legis-
lative districts of Baltimore city shall send an itemized statement of
the expenses in their several counties and legislative districts to the
chairman of the state central committee for the entire State of their
respective parties not later than the last day of October, and it shall
be lawful for the said chairman of the state central committee for the
entire State of each of said political parties to contribute towards
defraying the expenses of said primary elections of the political party
for which said chairman respectively may be acting, subject, however,
to existing laws of this State limiting the amounts and purposes of
expenditures at or concerning primary elections in this State.

1908, ch. 400, sec. 7.

208. Upon the completion of the count of the ballots cast at said
senatorial primary elections, the judges and clerks in each election
precinct or district shall certify, sign and seal a statement of the result
of said count upon suitable blanks to be furnished by the state central
committee of each party, and transmit such certificate and statement
to the state central committee of the appropriate party for the several
counties and legislative districts respectively, and each state central
committee of each of said parties shall forthwith tabulate and ascertain
the result in said counties and legislative districts respectively as
shown by said statement from said precincts and election districts, and
within three days after such tabulation and ascertainment shall make out
and forward to the chairman of the state central committee for the
whole State of each of said political parties an official report thereof.
Within three days after the receipt of said official report by the chair-
man of each political party aforesaid, it shall be his duty to publish
in two or more newspapers within this State, as he shall select, one
of the same, however, to be published in Baltimore city, the result of
such primary election of the party for which said chairman may be
acting, giving the vote received by each candidate in each of the several
counties and legislative districts respectively in the primaries of the