1032 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

and not less than thirty days before the election, certify the
same to the supervisors of elections in the counties and the city
of Baltimore, and thereupon the said supervisors shall include
the same in the publication provided for in section 48 of this
article. If questions of local concern are to be submitted for
approval to the vote of the people of a county or a municipality
the same shall be certified to said supervisors of elections
within said period by the county commissioners or the register
of the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, and shall be
advertised as herein provided in the case of nominees for county
or city offices. '
Board of Supervisors v. Todd, 97 Md. 261.

Ballots and Ballot-Boxes.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 48.

52. All ballots cast in elections for public officers within
this State shall be printed and distributed as hereinafter pro-
vided. The printing of ballots and cards of instruction for
the voters in each county and the city of Baltimore, and the
delivery of the same to the judges of election as provided in
this article shall be at public expense, the payment of which
shall be provided for by the several counties and the city of
Baltimore, respectively. All ballot-boxes shall be constructed
as follows : Each box shall be one foot outside measure, as
near as may be, in width and length, and eighteen inches in
depth, strapped and secured on each edge and corner with
brass mouldings, securely brazed or soldered together at the
junctions thereof, so as to prevent it from being easily broken ;
it shall have a strong wooden lid, which shall be fastened to
the box with brass or iron hinges, not accessible from the out-
side, and shall have a good Yale lock, there shall be a slit in
the lid just large enough to admit a single folded ballot at one
time, and the sides and bottom of the box shall be of clear
plate glass not less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness.
Each such box, when not in actual use at a polling place, shall
be kept in a wooden case for the protection of the same and
its contents in the transportation and storage thereof.

Ibid. sec. 49. 1901. ch. 2.

53. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of elec-
tions of each county and of the city of Baltimore to provide
ballots for every election for public officers held under this
article in which any voters within the county or said city shall
participate, and cause to be printed on the ballot the name of