1050 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33.

be made upon a single sheet of paper and shall contain a
caption stating the day on which and the number of the elec-
tion precinct and the county or ward of the city in relation to
which said statements shall be made, and the time of opening
and closing the polls of such precinct, and showing the whole
number of votes given for each person, designating the office
for which they were, given. Such statements shall be written
or partly written and partly printed in words at length, and in
case a proposition of any kind has been submitted to a vote at
such election such statement shall also show in like manner
the whole number of votes cast for or against such proposition,
and at the end of such statement shall be written a certificate
that the same is correct in all respects; which certificate and
each sheet of paper forming a part of the statement shall be
subscribed by the judges and clerks. If any judge or clerk
shall decline to sign such return, he shall state his reason
therefor in writing, and a copy thereof, signed by himself, shall
be enclosed with each return. Each of the statements shall be
enclosed in an envelope, which shall then be securely sealed
with sealing wax or other adhesive material, and each of the
judges and clerks shall write his name across the fold of the
envelope. One of the envelopes shall be directed to the clerk
of the circuit court for the county or the superior court of
Baltimore city, as the case may be, and one to the county com-
missioners or to the mayor of the city of Baltimore, as the
case may be. Each set of tallies shall also be signed by the
election clerks and the judges of election, and each shall be
enclosed in an envelope securely signed and sealed as afore-
said, one of which shall be addressed to the board of super-
visors 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 pre-
cinct, ward, city or county.

1896, ch 202, sec. 69.

74. The "spoiled" and "not voted" ballots, as defined in
section 68, shall be enclosed in a package to themselves and
endorsed " spoiled and not voted;" the "rejected" and "defec-
tive" ballots, as defined in said section and section 71, 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