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law, before twelve o'clock, noon, the ballots cast and the ballots
rejected at such election, in separate sealed packages, and the
poll-books and certificates aforesaid, to the presiding officer of
the managing convention of the political association or party
under whose authority the election was called, who shall imme-
diately thereupon publicly announce the result; such packages
shall be destroyed after the expiration of thirty days, by said pre-
siding officer, without breaking the seal, unless they are, before
that time, demanded by the executive committee of such man-
aging convention, to be used as evidence in cases of contest
among any of the candidates at such election.

1886, ch. 603.

291. The executive committee of any such managing con-
vention, shall have full power to hear and determine all questions
of contest between any candidates voted for at such election, and
to prescribe the rules to govern all such contests, and may
demand and receive for such purpose from the presiding officer
of such convention, the poll-books, certificates and ballots re-
turned to him by the judges of election; and for such purpose
shall have power to summon witnesses and examine them under
oath, to be administered by the acting chairman of such com-
mittee.

Ibid.

292. It shall be the duty of the return judges of said election,
immediately after each election at which he has acted as such, to
appear before the grand jury of the criminal court of Baltimore,
to be examined touching any and all violations of the provisions
of this sub-title of this article, of which he may have personal
knowledge, to have been committed at such election, or to furnish
to said grand jury, before their adjournment, his or their certifi-
cate, signed by him, and under oath made and certified before a
justice of the peace of said city, that he did not know and had
no reason to believe that any such offences had been committed
at such election, which certificate shall be returned by the grand
jury to the said court, and preserved and recorded by the clerk
thereof.
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