188 ARTICLE 33.

No vote shall be counted for any candidate opposite whose name no cross-
mark shall be placed, and no ballot shall be rejected solely because any
part or portion of the cross-mark extends beyond the square, if the point

of intersection of the cross-mark is within the square or because the voter
has marked more names than there are persons to be elected to an office,
but such ballots shall not be counted, for any candidate in. the group of
names so marked. They shall open the ballots, and all of them shall be

canvassed separately by one of the judges sitting between two other judges,
which judge shall call out each name and the office for which it is desig-
nated and the other judges looking at the ballot at the same time, and the
clerks making tally of the same. When all the ballots have been canvassed
in this manner, the election clerks shall compare their tallies together and
ascertain the total number of votes received by each candidate, and when
they agree upon the numbers, one of them shall announce in a loud voice
to the judges the aggregate number of votes received by each candidate.
If requested by any watcher or challenger present at any canvass it shall
be the duty of the judges and each of them to exhibit to such watcher or

challenger any ballot cast, fully opened or in such condition and manner
that he may fully read and examine the same, but the judges shall not
allow any ballot to be taken from their hands. As the ballots are counted
they shall be strung upon a strong twine.

81. Repealed by ch. 370 of the Acts of 1927.

Offenses.

97.

This and following sections referred to in sustaining local election law for
Havre de Grace. Mandamus. Qualification of voters. Moore v. Bay, 149 Md.
294.

Compensation.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 126. 1912, sec. 118. 1904, sec. 116. 1888, sec. 84. 1860, sec. 45.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 110. 1906, ch. 544, sec. 116. 1920, Ch. 512, sec. 118.

1927, chs. 276 and 541.

126. The sheriffs in the several counties shall, respectively, be allowed
the sum of twelve dollars ($12. 00) for each election held in their county
for the performance of the duties therein required, to be levied as other

county charges; provided, that when two or more elections are to be held
the same day the sheriff shall not be allowed more than twelve dollars for
such election (except in Baltimore City); all judges, whether acting as or
sitting as officers of registration, and clerks of election, shall be allowed and
paid three dollars per day; fractions of a day shall be allowed for at the
rate of thirty cents an hour. In the City of Baltimore, in the year 1907,
and thereafter, the judges when acting as officers of registration shall be
allowed and paid eight dollars a day, and all judges and clerks when sitting
as officers of election shall be allowed and paid ten dollars for each election
conducted by them; each judge and each clerk of election who has per-
formed all the duties and services required of him by this article shall be