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as aforesaid, and the meeting of said judges shall then be dissolved. There-
upon the said judges shall forthwith deliver the said registers or the said
binder (containing said cards) to the Board of Supervisors of Elections,
and the said statements to the respective officers to whom they are addressed,
as aforesaid, and shall take receipts therefor. No judge shall receive pay
for his services unless he produces the receipt herein provided for. The
officers to whom the statements are so delivered shall securely keep the
same with the seals unbroken.

In those precincts of the counties in which voting machines shall be
used, after the proceedings set forth in the preceding section in each
precinct, the judges who are also officers of registration, who shall be
designated beforehand by the Supervisors of Elections, shall each 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 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 registers and statements of votes cast to the proper officers in
their respective counties, as hereinbefore prescribed for the City of Balti-
more, and shall take similar receipts for the same.

It shall be the duty of the Supervisors of Elections in the several counties
and in said city to attend at their respective offices on the days named for
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.
See notes to secs. 116 and 126.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 86. 1912, sec. 78. 1904, sec. 76. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 71. 1906, ch. 544,

sec. 76. 1916, ch. 116.

122. The Board of Supervisors of Election, upon receiving a ballot box
and the key thereof, shall note the condition of the seal or stamp on each
box, and make an entry of the facts touching the same, in a book to be kept
by them, together with the name of the officer who delivered the box. They
shall deliver all the ballot boxes so sealed, as aforesaid, to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for their respective counties, or to the Board of Police Com-
missioners of Baltimore City, as the case may be, who shall put them in a
secure place to which the public shall in no case have access, and shall safely
keep them for the space of four months from the date of such delivery, at
which time, unless previously notified to produce the same to be used in
evidence in some contested election or judicial or legislative investigation
then pending, said Board of Supervisors shall destroy, or cause to be
destroyed said ballots and poll books, also all of the said tallies and state-
ments or returns, and shall record in the same book a certificate of the
fact.

While ballot boxes are not to be opened so as to permit acts of sworn officers to
be enquired into without an adequate and well-defined cause, yet when an indictment
has been returned by a grand jury, a sufficient prima jade case has been made out for
opening boxes. Inspection and count of the ballots held proper in a criminal case. Grand
jury held to have had right to have ballot box and ballots before them, and that
presence of police commissioner and supervisor of elections in grand jury room for
purpose and in manner testified to by them, did not prejudice traverser. Cochran v.
State, 119 Md. 550.

Where boxes have been kept as required, ballots may be examined by the court in
case of a contest. Leonard v. Woolford, 91 Md. 627.

See notes to sec. 126.