ART. 33] BALLOTS. 1039

more two packages, each containing one hundred ballots for
every one hundred or fraction of one hundred voters shown
by the last preceding registration in said precinct, and shall
cause each package to be sealed and clearly marked on the
outside of its wrapper with the name of the precinct or polling
place for which it is intended and the number of ballots
enclosed. One of said two packages shall be delivered to the
judges of elections with the ballot boxes, poll books, blanks
and stationery, as provided in section 59 of this article, and
the other package of tickets, one for every precinct, shall be
delivered by said board of supervisors of elections a suffi-
cient time before the election to the sheriffs of their respec-
tive counties or to the board of police commissioners of Balti-
more city, as the case may be, and it shall be the duty of the
said sheriffs and board of police commissioners to have them
on the day of election within said polling places, respectively,
in their charge, or that of an officer designated by them, and
to supply them to any judges of election who shall then make
requisition therefor in writing, stating their first supply of
ballots has been exhausted or that for any cause the second set
is needed. Said sheriffs and board of police commissioners
shall receipt for the same, and keep a record of all such
second sets of ballots so delivered by them to the judges of
election, and they shall, on the day after election, return all
packages not so delivered to their respective boards of super-
visors of elections, who shall cause them to be destroyed
within ten days thereafter, unless the destruction thereof be
stayed by order of court pending a contest. The several
boards of supervisors shall keep a record of the number of all
ballots printed for each polling place in their respective
counties or city, and shall preserve the same for at least six
months after the election for which it was made.

1696, ch. 202, sec. 54. 1901, ch. 2.

59. The supervisors of elections of Baltimore city shall
deliver to the board of police commissioners of Baltimore
city, not more than three days and not less than one day
preceding the election, the two registers of every precinct of
said city, together with the cards of instruction and ballot box
therefor, the latter being locked, with the key in the lock, and
containing one of the sealed packages of ballots for said pre-
cinct, the specimen ballots, the two poll books, and all blanks,
indelible pencils and stationery required for such election.
And the said board of police commissioners shall receipt