1040 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

therefor, and shall deliver or cause the same to be delivered to
the judges of election of the respective precincts at or before
the opening of the polls on the day of election. Said boards
of supervisors shall keep a record of the time when such
deliveries are made by them and of the particulars thereof.
The supervisors of elections of the several counties shall,
not more than three days prior to every election and not less
than one, make up into sealed packages for each precinct
the two registers for said precinct, together with the cards of
instruction and the key of the ballot box for such precinct,
having first placed in the ballot box one of the sealed packages
of ballots for said precinct, the specimen ballots, the two poll
books, and all blanks, indelible pencils and stationery required
for such elections, and shall deliver or cause the same to be
delivered to the judges of election of the respective precincts
at or before the end of the day preceding the day of election.
Said boards of supervisors of elections of the several counties
shall also at the same time, that is to say, at or before the end
of the day preceding the day of election, deliver to the judges
of election of the several precincts or districts the other sealed
package of tickets mentioned in section 58, said board of super-
visors of elections shall in like manner keep a record of the
time when such deliveries are made by them, and of the par-
ticulars thereof. Said several boards of supervisors in the
counties are hereby respectively authorized and directed to make
adequate provision for the performance of the duty imposed
upon them by this section, and the county commissioners of
the several counties shall pay the expenses incurred in the per-
formance thereof. Should said boards of supervisors fail or
neglect to make the delivery by the time prescribed by this
section, it shall be the duty of the judge, designated before-
hand by the supervisors, to take charge of the ballot-box, as
provided in section 75 of this article, to immediately send to
the supervisors therefor, and to obtain the same as soon as
practicable, in order that the election may be duly held, the
cost hereby incurred to be paid by the county commissioners
as a part of the election expenses. For failure or neglect on
the part of the supervisors of elections, the board of police
commissioners, or any person employed by them respectively
in the discharge of the duties required of them by this section,
or said judges, or any person employed by them to perform the
duties imposed upon them respectively by this section, they
shall respectively be subject to indictment for a misdemeanor,