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then be destroyed, unless a contest shall have occurred with respect to
some office embraced therein, when the same shall be preserved until said
contest shall be ended.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161EE.

295. There shall be provided for each voting place, at which an election
is to be held, two sets of such ballots, each of not less than one hundred
for every fifty or fraction of fifty registered voters therein, and it shall be
the duty of the registers of voters in each ward in which any of the elec-
tions hereinbefore mentioned is to be held, to certify to the board of super-
visors of election, immediately after the close of the last sitting of the
registers in each year the number of registered voters in each ward; the
officers hereinbefore charged with the duty of preparing the ballots shall
furnish the ballots for use in each such election, and also cause to be
printed, without the fac-simile endorsements, ten or more copies of the
form, of the ballot provided for each voting place at each election therein,
which shall be called specimen ballots, and shall be furnished with the
other ballots provided for each such voting place.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161FF.

296. It shall be the duty of said board of supervisors to furnish any
persons applying therefor copies of any certificate of nominations, nomi-
nation papers or withdrawal papers filed with them, for which they shall
be entitled to charge the same rates as for copies of papers made by the
clerk of the court.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161GG.

297. The said board of supervisors of election shall three days, at
least, prior to the day of any election in the city of Hagerstown, cause to
be conspicuously posted in one or more public places in each ward sample
copies of the ballots to be used in such district or precinct.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161HH. 1894, ch. 508.

298. The board of supervisors of election shall, previous to the opening
of the polls for any election in any ward or wards, but not more than
forty-eight hours previous thereto, deliver to the chief of police of the
city of Hagerstown, the ballot boxes, one set of said ballots, together with
the specimen ballots, cards of instructions, sample ballots and copies of
the sections enumerated in Section 299 for said ward or wards, and
the said chief of police shall, before the opening of the polls on the day
of election in any ward, in person or through subordinate policemen duly
qualified, deliver to the judges of election in each ward the articles herein-
before enumerated in this section; the other set of such ballots shall be
retained in the possession of the said board of supervisors of election;
upon the requisition in writing of the presiding or return judge, or of
any two judges of the election in any ward, that the second set of ballots
are needed for the use of the voters therein, the board of supervisors shall
deliver to said judges, through the hands of a policeman, the second set