264 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

canvass of such ballots. In the city of Baltimore the judges
shall immediately after such proclamation deliver to a policeman
on duty at the polling place, a statement subscribed with their
names, which shall be sealed up and forthwith conveyed by the
said policeman to the office of the board of police commission-
ers, whose duty it shall be to file and preserve the same. Such
statements shall contain the total number of votes in the ballot-
box and the number of votes found therein for each and every
candidate, and any person applying may inspect the same.

Election Returns.

1898. ch. 202.

68. The judges shall make duplicate statements or returns of
the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible, be made
upon a single sheet of paper and shall contain a caption stating
the day on which and the number of the election precinct and
the county or ward of the city in relation to which said state-
ments shall be made, and the time of opening and closing the
polls of such precinct, and showing the whole number of votes
given for each person, designating the office for which they were
given. Such statements shall be written or partly written, and
partly printed in words at length, and in case a proposition of any
kind has been submitted to a vote at such election, such state-
ments shall also show in like manner the whole number of
votes cast for or against such proposition, and at the end of
such statement shall be written a certificate that the same is
correct in all respects, which certificate and each sheet of paper
forming part of the statement, shall be subscribed by the
judges and clerks. If any judge or clerk shall decline to sign
such return, he shall state his reason therefor in writing, and a
copy thereof, signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each
return. Each of the statements shall be enclosed in an enve-
lope, which shall then be securely sealed with sealing wax or
other adhesive material, and each of the judges and clerks
shall write his name across the fold of the envelope. One of
the envelopes shall be directed to the clerk of the circuit
court of the county or the Superior Court of Baltimore city,
as the case may be, and one to the county commissioners or
to the mayor of the city of Baltimore, as the case may be.