290 ELECTIONS,. [ART. 33

1896, ch. 202

131. The copies of any papers recorded in any office of
record, attested under the hand and seal of the recording officer,
shall be admitted at all such trials in the same manner as the
originals would be if produced.

Ibid.

132. The copies of any other papers of a public nature, and
remaining in possession of a public officer, and extracts from the
poll-books, under the hand and seal of the clerk of the court or
public officer in whose office they are deposited, shall be admitted
as evidence.

Ibid.

133. The board of police commissioners in the city of Balti-
more and the clerks of the circuit courts in the counties, to
whom ballots have been returned under the provisions of this
article, shall produce any such ballots in regard to which testi-
mony may be proposed to be taken before a justice of the peace
taking examinations in a contested election, and shall furnish said
justice copies of the same only on an order first had and obtained
from some one of the courts of Baltimore city, or of the circuit
courts for the counties, or some one of the judges thereof, and
then, in pursuance of the terms and conditions of said order and
subject to its restrictions; and said police commissioners of Bal-
timore city, and said clerk, as the case may be, shall retain such
ballots in possession and* custody until such ballots shall be re-
quired by the order of the court having jurisdiction in the case,
to be delivered to said court, or by order of the Senate or House
of Delegates, in whichever the seat is contested.

Ibid.

134. The justice before whom such depositions shall be taken
shall be entitled to the sum of two dollars for every day he may
be engaged in the examination of witnesses, and the witnesses
shall be entitled to the usual allowance for their attendance before
a justice of the peace, to be paid by the party on whose behalf
such examination is held and said witnesses are summoned.