4000 ARTICLE 17.

1916, oh. 200, sec. 13.

766. The Mayor and Common Council of said town shall at the regular
meeting next before the first Monday in May in each and every year
appoint two qualified voters of said town to act as Clerks of Election, and
the said two Clerks of Election together with the Supervisors of Election
shall attend on the first Monday in May, 1917, and on the first Monday
in May in each and every year thereafter, and at such other times as special
elections for any purpose may be called under this Act, or under any other
Act of Assembly, at the place where such elections are to be held in accord-
ance with the notice thereof published as aforesaid, and after each taking
an oath before some person duly qualified to administer oaths, that they
will conduct their duties in connection with said election fairly and im-
partially and in accordance with law, they shall proceed between the
hours of 8 o'clock A. M. and 8 o'clock P. M. on such date to receive the
votes of those persons whose names shall be found upon the registration
books who shall then and there present themselves for the purpose of voting.

The Election Supervisors shall provide four glass ballot boxes numbered
1, 2, 3 and 4, similar to those used in State elections of the State of Mary-
land, which shall be used at all elections held hereunder, and they shall
also provide booths at the ratio of one for each 100 registered voters, or
fractional part thereof. Any person offering to vote whose name shall
appear upon the registration books and who shall establish his identity
to the satisfaction of the Judges, shall be furnished by one of the Judges
with an official ballot having the initials of said Judge thereon, and he
shall then repair to one of the booths or compartments and therein mark
his ballot with a pencil making a cross (X) mark in the square opposite
the name of each candidate for whom he may desire to vote. He shall
then fold the ballot without displaying the marks thereon and return it to
one of the Judges of Election, who shall in his presence deposit it in the
ballot box, the number of which corresponds with that of the ward from
which the voter is registered, and his name shall be checked by the Judges
on the registration books in a space provided for that purpose. Any
voter who shall spoil a ballot so that he cannot vote it may return said
ballot to the Judge and receive another in its stead, and he shall in the
same way be entitled to a third ballot, but no more; said spoiled ballots
shall be immediatetly cancelled by the Judges by endorsing thereon the
word "Spoiled." No voter shall be allowed more than seven minutes
within which to vote. Each Clerk of Election shall keep a poll book con-
taining 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 found entitled to vote and given a ballot shall be entered on each
of the poll books by the Clerks having charge thereof in regular succession
under the proper heading; but if the vote of any person whose name has
been entered on the poll books shall be afterwards rejected by the Judges,
and his ballot not put in a ballot box, the Clerks shall thereupon draw a
line through his name and number.