1302 ARTICLE 33.

An. Code, sec. 142. 1904, sec. 140. 1888, sec. 105. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 132.

153. The copies of any other papers of a public nature, and remaining
in possession of a public officer, and extracts from the poll-books, under the
hand and seal of the clerk of the court or public officer in whose office .they
are deposited, shall be admitted as evidence.

An. Code, sec. 143. 1904, sec. 141. 1888, sec. 106. 1902, ch. 133.

154. The board of police commissioners in the city of Baltimore and
the clerks of the circuit courts in the counties to whom ballots have been
returned under the provisions of this article shall produce any such ballots
in regard to which testimony may be proposed to be taken before a justice
of the peace taking examinations in a contested election, and shall furnish
said justice copies of the same only on the order first had and obtained from
some of the courts of Baltimore city or the circuit courts for the counties,
or some one of the judges thereof, and then, in pursuance of the terms
and conditions of said order and subject to its restrictions; and said police
commissioners of Baltimore city, and said clerks, as the case may be, shall
retain such ballots in possession and custody until such ballots shall be
required by the order of the court having jurisdiction in the case, to be
delivered to said court, or by order of the senate or house of delegates, or
by order of the first branch or second branch of the city council of Balti-
more, in whichever the seat is contested.

Cited but not construed in Leonard v. Woolford, 91 Md. 627.

An. Code, sec. 144. 1904, sec. 142. 1888, sec. 107. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 134.

155. The justice before whom such depositions shall be taken shall be
entitled to the sum of two dollars for every day he may be engaged in the
examination of witnesses, and the witnesses shall be entitled to the usual
allowance for their attendance before a justice of the peace, to be paid
by the party on whose behalf such examination is held and said witnesses
are summoned.

An. Code, sec. 145. 1904, sec. 143. 1888, sec. 108. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 135.

156. No person contesting a seat of any one who has been regularly
returned by the judges of election as elected to a seat in the senate or house
of delegates shall be allowed any per diem, mileage or other pay, unless
the party so contesting shall establish his right to such seat.

Electors of President and Vice-President.

An. Code, sec. 146. 1904, sec. 144. 1888, sec. 109. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 136.

157. On the first Tuesday next after the first Monday of November
preceding the time fixed by law of the United States for choice of president
and vice-president of the United States there shall be elected by general
tickets as many electors of president and vice-president as this State shall
be entitled to appoint.

This section referred to in determining whether an election was "a general elec-'
tion." Downs v. State, 78 Md. 131.

As to the proclamation by the Governor of persons elected electors to vote for
president, etc., see art. 41, sec. 27.