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Each set of tallies shall also be signed by the election clerks
and the judges of election, and each shall be enclosed in au
envelope securely signed and sealed as aforesaid, one of which
shall be addressed to the board of supervisors of elections,
and the other to the register of wills. On the outside of
every envelope shall be endorsed the statement that it contains
the votes cast or the tallies, and for what precinct, ward, city or
county.

1896, ch. 202.

69. The "spoiled" and "not voted" ballots, as defined in sec-
tion sixty-three, shall be enclosed in a package to themselves
and endorsed "spoiled and not voted; " the "rejected" and
"defective ballots, " as defined in said section and in section
sixty-six, shall be enclosed in a package to themselves, and
endorsed "rejected and defective. " The poll-books and the
ballots cast and counted, as well as the two before mentioned
packages of "spoiled, " "not voted, " "rejected" and "defective"
ballots shall be placed in the ballot-box, and the ballot-box shall
then be locked and the key removed, whereupon the judges of
election shall all write their names upon a strip of paper of suffi-
cient length for the following purposes. Said strip of paper
shall then be pasted over the keyhole of said ballot-box and over
the slit in the lid, in such manner that the signature shall
extend across the place of the opening of the lid, and so that
when the box is opened it will tear the paper and destroy the
signatures, and so that when the key is inserted in the keyhole it
will tear the paper so pasted over the keyhole. Such paper shall
be securely fastened to the box with sealing-wax or some other
adhesive material.

Ibid

70. Thereupon, in Baltimore city, one of the judges shall take
charge of the ballot-box and its contents so inclosed, and another
judge, representing the opposite political party, shall receive and
hold the key thereof, and the package of unused ballots sealed
up by said judges, as required by section sixty-four; each of the
two judges who do not have charge of the ballot-box or key, shall
take into his possession one of the registers and also one of the
statements of the votes cast, sealed up in its envelope as afore-