3928 ARTICLE 17.

tion under section 60 and section 100 of Chapter 202 of the Acts of 1896
of the General Assembly of Maryland.

And each clerk of election shall keep a poll book containing a column
headed "Number" and another headed "Name of Voter." All entries
therein shall be made in ink, and the number and name of each person to
whom ballot is given shall be entered on each of the poll books by the
clerks having charge thereof in regular succession under the proper head-
ing, the number of each voter being placed opposite his name in the column
headed "Number," but if the vote of any person whose name has been
entered on the poll books shall be afterwards rejected by the judges, the
clerks shall thereupon draw a line through his name and number and con-
tinue said list, if there be any other voters, as if the same had not been
entered.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 200.

609. The voting at said elections for Mayor and City Councilmen, or
upon any proposition submitted to the qualified voters of said town, shall
commence at eight o'clock A. M. and continue until seven o'clock P. M. as
hereinbefore provided; and after the inspection of the ballot box and
tickets by the judges and clerks of election and the ballot box shall have
been locked, which shall not again he opened until the polls close, all quali-
fied voters of the said town offering to vote and whose names appear upon
the said registration books shall be furnished an official ballot with the
initials of one of the judges thereon, after having answered such questions
relating to his identity and right to vote as the judges of election may think
proper, and repair to one of the booths or compartments provided for
voters and mark his ballot with the pencil therein provided and as herein-
before required, when he shall fold his ticket without displaying the marks
thereon, and return it to one of the judges of election, who shall deposit
it in the ballot box; provided, however, that any voter who shall spoil a
ballot so he cannot vote it may, on returning said spoiled ballot to the
judge holding the ballots, receive another in its stead; and should he spoil
the second ballot, he shall upon returning the same to the officer aforesaid,
be entitled to receive a third ballot, which said spoiled ballots shall be
immediately cancelled by endorsing thereon the word "spoiled," which
ballots shall be preserved and included in the election returns. Every
voter who does not vote the" ballot delivered to him shall, before leaving
the polling place, return such ballot to the judge from whom he received
it, and said returned ballot shall be retained as if said ballot had been
spoiled; and no voter shall be allowed over seven minutes in which to vote,

1912, ch. 695, sec. 201.

610. Immediately upon the closing of the polls the judges of election
shall proceed to count the ballots, and the counting or canvass thereof shall
not be adjourned or postponed until the count or canvass shall have been
fully completed; nor until the returns have been announced publicly and
the written returns herein provided for fully completed and signed by the