ART. 33] BALLOT-BOXES. 1051

locked and the key removed, whereupon the judges of election
shall all write their names upon a strip of paper of sufficient
length for the following purposes. Said strip of paper shall
then be pasted over the keyhole of said ballot-box and over the
slit in the lid, in such manner that the signatures shall extend
across the place of the opening of the lid, and so that when
the box is opened it will tear the paper and destroy the signa-
tures, and so that when the key is inserted in the keyhole it
will tear the paper so pasted over the keyhole. Such paper
shall be securely fastened in the box with sealing wax or some
other adhesive material.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 70.

75. Thereupon, in Baltimore city, one of the judges shall
take charge of the ballot-box and its contents so enclosed, and
another judge, representing the opposite political party, shall
receive and hold the key thereof, and the package of unused
ballots sealed up by said judges, as required by section 69 ;
each of the two judges who do not have charge of the ballot-
box or key, shall take into his possession one of the registers,
and also one of the statements of the votes cast, sealed up in
its envelope as aforesaid, and each of the clerks shall take one
of the tally-sheets sealed up in an envelope as aforesaid, and
the meeting of said judges and clerks shall then be dissolved.
Before 12 o'clock noon of the day after such election in Balti-
more city, the judge having possession of the ballot-box shall
deliver the same, with the contents aforesaid, to the board of
supervisors of elections with the seal unbroken, and shall take
a receipt therefor, and within the same period of time the
judges having possession of the key, the package of unused
ballots and of the registers shall deliver the same to the said
board of supervisors and take a receipt therefor; and the two
judges and clerks of elections in the city of Baltimore having
possession of the statements and tallies shall within the same
time deliver them to the respective officers to whom they are
addressed, as aforesaid, and when so delivered, each of said
judges and clerks shall take a receipt therefor. No judge or
clerk shall receive pay for his services unless he produces the
receipt herein provided for. The officers to whom the state-
ments and tallies are so delivered shall securely keep the
same with the seals unbroken. In the counties, after the pro-
ceedings set forth in the preceding section in each precinct,
one of the judges, who is also an officer of registration, who
shall be designated beforehand by the supervisor of election,