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the vote has been by mail. If there be more than one ballot in the ballot
envelope all shall be rejected. At primary elections the ballot shall not be
counted unless it is a ballot of the political party with which the voter is
affiliated. Ballots printed "Mail Ballots" may be marked by any kind
of pencil or ink.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 233. 1912, sec. 227. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 227.

312. When all the ballots have been voted as aforesaid the Supervisors
of Elections shall proceed to canvass and count the same in accordance
with the provisions relating to the canvass and count of votes in such city
or county by judges and clerks of elections. The Supervisors of Elections
shall appoint such clerks as may be necessary to keep the tallies for each
precinct or district in which ballots are counted and canvassed by them,
and the tallies and the returns shall all be transmitted to the Board of
Canvassers as hereinafter provided. The Supervisors of Elections upon
completing the count shall make the statements or returns of the result
as required to be made by judges of elections for every precinct or election
district in which mail ballots have been counted, and at the end of such
return shall sign a certificate that the same is correct in all respects. If
any Supervisor shall decline to sign such return the same action shall be
taken by him as is required to be taken by a judge of election in a simi-
lar case.

The Supervisors of Elections shall then proceed to sit as a Board of
Canvassers, shall canvass the returns made by them of mail ballots counted
by them as aforesaid and shall canvass and add up such votes in the total
of votes canvassed and counted by them. The Board of Canvassers shall
not conclude the canvass of votes at any election until after the time for
counting and canvassing votes by mail as aforesaid shall have expired
and until such mail ballots as they shall receive from the Supervisors of
Elections shall be counted and canvassed as aforesaid, but in all other re-
spects the Board of Canvassers for the several counties and for Baltimore
City shall proceed as now required by law.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 234. 1912, sec. 228. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 228.

313. Whenever the condition which resulted in the issuing of the
proclamation hereinbefore provided for terminate, it shall be the duty of
the Governor, as soon as is convenient and proper, by proclamation, pub-
lished as provided in Section 304 of this Article, to end the suspension of
the electron laws, and the provisions of this sub-title shall become inop-
erative until such time as a new proclamation of suspension is issued.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 235. 1912, sec. 229. 1918, ch. 78, sec. 229.

314. Whenever possible, the existing election laws and the provisions
of this sub-title shall be construed together in such a way as to promote
the purpose for which this sub-title is intended, to the end that the citi-
zens of the State shall not be deprived of their right or opportunity to
vote because of service, as herein provided, for their State or the United
States. Whenever the provisions of this sub-title are enforced at any elec-
tion the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City shall be entitled to
receive in addition to the compensation now paid to them the further sum
of $200 each for every such election, and the Supervisors of Elections of
the several counties in addition to the compensation now allowed them
shall each be entitled to receive the additional sum of $25 each for every