ART. 35.] ELECTIONS.

oil of Baltimore city, or the county commissioners of
the respective counties shall fail to appoint the judge
or judges as hereinbefore provided, or the judges ap-
pointed shall fail to act, then the voters present or a
majority of them shall choose by ballot a person to
act as judge of said election, who, for that election,
shall be vested with the same power and authority as
if he had been appointed by the county commis-
sioners or the mayor and city council of Baltimore
city ; the judges of election appointed under this act,
shall take the same oath which is required to be
taken by other judges of election under the constitu-
tion and laws of the state, before they shall be quali-
fied to act, and the certificate of such oath signed by
the person administering the same shall be annexed
to the polls.

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90. The county commissioners or mayor and city
council of Baltimore, at the time of appointing said
judge or judges of election shall designate some
judge of election in said county or the city of Balti-
more, to whom such returns shall be made, and
whose name and address shall accompany the poll
books, commission, and other matters required to be
furnished to said judges.

ibid s.6.
To whom their
returns to be
made.

91. The ballots, after having been counted by the
judge acting at the head-quarters of the regiment or
company, shall by him be carefully enclosed in an
envelope and with the list of voters or poll books,
and the proper certificates annexed, and forward the
same at the expense of the county or city, as the case
may be, by mail, to the address of the judge desig-
nated by the county commissioners or mayor and
city council of Baltimore, and shall, by the next
mail, forward a duplicate certificate of the number of
votes cast, the number cast for each candidate and
the office for which cast, to the clerk of the circuit
court of the particular county, or the clerk of the
superior court of Baltimore city.

Ibid. s. 7.
By whom and
to whom the
ballots, poll
books and cer-
tificates to be
forwarded.

92. It shall be the duty of the return judges of the
several counties, as soon as they shall be notified of

Ibid s. 3
When the votes
to be counted.