ELECTIONS 1563

1939, ch. 687, sec. 224AE.

298. Except as modified by the provisions of Sections 294 to 298, in-
clusive, the general laws regulating general, primary, special and other
elections shall apply to all elections in any county in which voting ma-
chines may be used. The provisions of Sections 294 to 298, inclusive, shall
apply only to Carroll and Allegany Counties.¹

Baltimore County.
1939, ch. 765, sec. 224 1/2A.

299. The Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore County, with
the approval of the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County,
are authorized and empowered to purchase, rent, lease or otherwise acquire
such number of voting machines as may be required to equip any or all
of the polling places in said County as now established or as may hereafter
be established, such voting machines to be acquired in such manner and
on such terms as may be agreed upon by and between the Board of Super-
visors of Election and the Board of County Commissioners of said County.
The Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County, for the purpose
of such purchase, or rent or lease of voting machines, may provide by con-
tract for payment therefor upon such terms and in instalments of such
amounts and payable at such times as the Board of County Commissioners
shall deem for the best interests of the County. In the event of the leasing,
rental or other acquisition of voting machines, such machines shall not be
assessable for the purpose of State, County or municipal taxation, and shall
be exempt from tax.

1939, ch. 765, sec. 224 1/2B.

300. The Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore County is
authorized to rearrange, consolidate, subdivide or otherwise re-establish
precinct or polling place boundaries for the purpose of establishing polling
places best suited, in the judgment of the said Board of Supervisors of
Election, for the use of voting machines; provided, that at least one voting
machine shall be furnished for each unit for four hundred voters and an
additional machine for every additional part of such unit. In polling places
where voting machines are used, the elections in such polling places shall be
conducted by the four judges of election, and in such polling places no clerks
of election shall be appointed. In such polling places, judges of election,
when acting as such, shall be compensated at such rate as is now or may be
hereafter provided by law.

After the polls are closed, the Judges of Election shall make four dupli-
cate statements of the result of the canvass, which shall be promptly deliv-
ered, respectively, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore County,
the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore County, the Register of
Wills of Baltimore County and the Board of Supervisors of Election of
Baltimore County. The keys of the machines shall likewise be delivered
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court.

In primary elections in Baltimore County the ballot labels used in the
voting machines in said County shall be printed on materials of such dif-
ferent color for each political party as may be determined by the Board of
Supervisors of Election of said County.

¹ Sec. 2, ch. 687. 1939, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to extent of such
inconsistency.