ELECTIONS. 1277

aforesaid, and the meeting of said judges and clerks shall then be dissolved.
Before 12 o'clock noon of the day after such election in Baltimore city,
the judge having possession of the ballot-box shall deliver the same, with the
contents aforesaid, to the board of supervisors of elections with the seal
unbroken, and shall take a receipt therefor, and within the same period of
time the judges having possession of the key, the package of unused ballots
and of the registers shall deliver the same to the said board of supervisors
and take a receipt therefor; and the two judges and clerks of elections
in the city of Baltimore having possession of the statements and tallies
shall within the same time deliver them to the respective officers to whom
they are addressed, as aforesaid, and when so delivered, each of said judges
and clerks shall take a receipt therefor. No judge or clerk shall receive
pay for his services unless he produces the receipt herein provided for. The
officers to whom the statements and tallies are so delivered shall securely
keep the same with the seals unbroken. In the counties, after the pro-
ceedings set forth in the preceding section in each precinct, one of the
judges, who is also an officer of registration, who shall be designated
beforehand by the supervisor of election, shall take charge of the ballot-
box and its contents so enclosed, and the other judge, who is also an
officer of registration, shall receive and hold the key thereof, and the pack-
age of unused ballots sealed up by said judges; each of said two judges
shall take into his possession one of the registers, and also one of the state-
ments of the votes cast, sealed up in its envelope as aforesaid, and also one of
the tally sheets, sealed up in an envelope as aforesaid, and the meeting of
the judges and clerks shall then be dissolved; before 12 o'clock noon of the
second day after said election, the two judges so having custody thereof
shall deliver said ballot-boxes, keys, packages of unused ballots, registers,
statements of votes cast and tally sheets to the proper officers in their
respective counties, as hereinbefore prescribed for the city of Baltimore,
and shall take similar receipts for the same. It shall be the duty of the
supervisors of elections in the several counties and in said city to attend
to their respective offices on the days named for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this section.
See notes to secs. 80 and 90.

An. Code, sec. 78. 1904, sec. 76. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 71. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 76. 1916, ch. 116.

86. The Board of Supervisors of Election, upon receiving a ballot box
and the key thereof, shall note the condition of 'the seal or stamp on each
box, and make an entry of the facts touching the same, in a book to be kept
by them, together with the name of the officer who delivered the box. They
shall deliver all the ballot boxes so sealed, as aforesaid, to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for their respective counties, or to the Board of Police Com-
missioners of Baltimore City, as the case may be, who shall put them in a
secure place to which the public shall in no case have access, and shall safely
keep them for the space of four months from the date of such delivery, at
which time, unless previously notified to produce the same to be used in
evidence in some contested election or judicial or legislative investigation
then pending, said Board of Supervisors shall destroy, or cause to be