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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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ELECTIONS 1475

The provisions of this section shall not apply to those precincts in which
voting machines shall be used.
See notes to sec. 116.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 85. 1912, sec. 77. 1904, sec. 75. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 70. 1937,

ch. 95, sec. 85.

121. Thereupon, in those precincts of Baltimore City in which paper
ballots shall be used, one of the judges shall take charge of the ballot-box
and its contents so enclosed, and another judge representing the opposite
political party, shall receive and hold the key thereof, and the package of
unused ballots sealed up by said judges, as required by Section 114; the
two judges who do not have charge of the ballot-box or key, shall take
into their possession the registers of the binder containing the registration
cards for the precinct and each of said judges shall take one of the state-
ments of the votes cast (elsewhere in this Article called return sheets),
sealed up in its envelope as aforesaid, and each of the clerks shall take
one of the tally-sheets up in an envelope as aforesaid, and the meeting of
said judges and clerks shall then be dissolved. Before 12 o'clock noon of
the day after such election in such precincts, the judge having possession
of the ballot-box shall deliver the same, with the contents aforesaid, to the
Board of Supervisors of Elections with the seal unbroken, and shall take
a receipt therefor, and within the same period of time the judges having
possession of the key, the package of unused ballots and of the registers
or the binder containing the registration cards for the precinct shall deliver
the same to the said Board of Supervisors and take a receipt therefor; and
the two judges and clerks of elections in the City of Baltimore having pos-
session of the statements and tallies shall within the same time deliver them
to the respective officers to whom they are addressed, as aforesaid, and when
so delivered, each of said judges and clerks shall take a receipt therefor.
No judge or clerk shall receive pay for his services unless he produces the
receipt herein provided for. The officers to whom the statements and tallies
are so delivered shall securely keep the same with the seals unbroken.

In those precincts of the counties in which paper ballots shall be used,
after the proceedings set forth in the preceding section in each precinct, one
of the judges, who is also an officer of registration, who shall be designated
beforehand by the Supervisors of Elections, shall take charge of the ballot-
box and its contents so enclosed, and the other judge, who is also an officer
of registration, shall receive and hold the key thereof, and the package of
unused ballots sealed up by said judges; each of said two judges shall take
into his possession one of the registers, and also one of the statements of
the votes cast, sealed up in its envelope as aforesaid, and also one of the
tally-sheets, sealed up in an envelope as aforesaid, and the meeting of the
judges and clerks shall then be dissolved; before 12 o'clock noon of the
second day after said election, the two judges so having custody thereof
shall deliver said ballot-boxes, keys, packages of unused ballots, registers,
statements of votes cast and tally-sheets to the proper officers in their respec-
tive counties, as hereinbefore prescribed for the City of Baltimore, and
shall take similar receipts for the same.

In those precincts of Baltimore City in which voting machines shall
be used, two of the judges, each representing a different political party,
shall take into their possession the registers, or the binder containing the
registration cards for the precinct and each of the other judges shall take
charge of one of the statements of the votes cast, sealed up in its envelope


 

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