ELECTIONS. 1275

An. Code, sec. 74. 1904, sec. 72. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 67.

82. When the canvass of the ballots shall have been completed, and the
clerks shall have announced to the judges the total number of votes received
by each candidate, each of the judges of election, in turn, shall then pro-
claim in a loud voice the total number of votes received by each person
voted for in such precinct and the office for which he is designated, and
the number of votes for and the number of votes against any proposition
which shall have been submitted to the vote of the people; such proclama-
tion shall be prima facie evidence of the result of the canvass of such ballots.
In the city of Baltimore the judges shall, immediately after such proclama-
tion, deliver to a policeman on duty at the polling place a statement sub-
scribed with their names, which shall be sealed up and forthwith conveyed
by the said policeman to the office of the board of police commissioners,
whose duty it shall be to file and preserve the same. Such statements shall
contain the total number of votes in the ballot-box and the number of votes
found therein for each and every candidate, and any person applying may
inspect the same.

See notes to secs. 80 and 83.

Election Returns.

An. Code, sec. 75. 1904, sec. 73. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 68. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 73.

83. The judges shall make duplicate statements or returns of the result
of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible, be made upon a single sheet
of paper and shall contain a caption stating the day on which and the
number of the election precinct, and the county or ward of the city in
relation to which said statement shall be made, and the time of opening and
closing the polls of such precinct, and showing the whole number of votes
in the ballot-box, and the whole number of votes given for each person,
designating the office for which they were given. Such statement shall be
written or partly written and partly printed in words at length; and in case
a proposition of any kind has been submitted to a vote at such election, such
statements shall also show in like manner the whole number of votes cast
for or against such proposition, and at the end of such statement shall be
written a certificate that the same is correct in all respects; which certifi-
cate and each sheet of paper forming a part of the statement shall be sub-
scribed by the judges and clerks. If any judge or clerk shall decline to sign
such return he shall state his reason therefor in writing and a copy thereof,
signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each return. Each of the state-
ments shall be enclosed in an envelope which shall then be securely sealed
with sealing wax or other adhesive material, and each of the judges and
clerks shall write his name across the fold of the envelope. One of the
envelopes shall be directed to the clerk of the circuit court of the county,
or the superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, and one to the
county commissioners or to the mayor of the city of Baltimore, as the
case may be. Each set of tallies shall also be signed by the election clerks
and the judges of election, and each shall be enclosed in an envelope
securely signed and sealed as aforesaid, one of which shall be addressed