ELECTIONS 1459

in this article shall be at public expense, the payment of which shall be
provided for by the several counties and the city of Baltimore, respec-
tively. All ballot-boxes shall be constructed as follows: Each box shall be
one foot outside measure, as near as may be, in width and length, and
eighteen inches in depth, strapped and secured on each edge and corner
with brass mouldings, securely brazed or soldered together at the junctions
thereof, so as to prevent it from being easily broken; it shall have a strong
wooden lid, which shall be fastened to the box with brass or iron hinges,
not accessible from the outside, and shall have a good Tale lock, there shall
be a slit in the lid just large enough to admit a single folded ballot at one
time, and the sides and bottom of the box shall be of clear plate glass not
less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Each such box, when not in
actual use at a polling place, shall be kept in a wooden case for the pro-
tection of the same and its contents in the transportation and storage
thereof.

Cited in construing Art. 78. Jackson v. Norris, 173 Md. 585.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 62. 1912, sec. 54. 1904, sec. 53. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 49. 1901, ch. 2.
1924, ch. 581, sec. 54. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 62,

97. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections of
each county and of the City of Baltimore to provide ballots for every elec-
tion for public officers held under this Article in which any voters within
the county or said city shall participate, except in those precincts in which
voting machines shall be used, and cause to be printed on the ballots
the name of every candidate whose name has been certified to or filed with
the proper officers in the manner herein provided by such political party
organization or body of individuals, but the said Supervisors shall not
be required to print any name upon a ballot if such name shall not have
been certified to them at least ten days before election day. Each ballot
shall contain a statement of every constitutional amendment or other ques-
tion to be submitted to the vote of the people at any election. Ballots other
than those printed by the respective boards of Supervisors of Elections,
according to the provisions of this Article, shall not be cast or counted
in any election except as hereinafter provided. Nothing in this Article
contained shall prevent any voter from writing on his ballot and marking
in the proper place the name of any person other than those already printed
for whom he may desire to vote for any office, and such votes shall be
counted the same as if the name of such person had been printed upon the
ballot and marked by the voter. Any voter may take with him into the
polling place any written or printed memorandum or paper to assist him
in marking or preparing his ballot, except a facsimile of the ballot to be
voted. Ballots shall be printed and in possession of the Supervisors of
Elections at least four days, before election day, and a correct list of the
names of the candidates thereon with the designation of the offices for which
the persons named thereon are candidates shall be furnished on demand
by the Supervisors to the candidates or their authorized agents. If any
mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of said Supervisors to correct
the same without delay, and if said Supervisors shall decline or refuse
to make correction, then upon the sworn petition of any qualified voter
who would have the right to vote for such candidate at the approaching
election, the Circuit, Court for any county or one of the Judges of the
Supreme Bench of Baltimore City may, by order, require said Supervisors