1052 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

shall take charge of the ballot-box and its contents so enclosed,
and the other judge, who is also an officer of registration, shall
receive and hold the key thereof, and the package of unused
ballots sealed up by said judges; each of said two judges 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 also one of the tally sheets, sealed up in an
envelope as aforesaid, and the meeting of the judges and clerks
shall then be dissolved; before 12 o'clock noon of the second
day after said election, the two judges so having custody
thereof shall deliver said ballot-boxes, keys, packages of
unused ballots, registers, statements of votes cast and tally
sheets to the proper officers in their respective counties, as
hereinbefore prescribed for the city of Baltimore, and shall
take similar receipts for the same. It shall be the duty of the
supervisors of elections in the several counties and in said city
to attend at their respective offices on the days named for the
purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 71.

76. The board of supervisors of elections upon receiving
a ballot-box and a key thereof shall note the condition of the
seal or stamp on each box, and make an entry of the facts
touching the same in a book to be kept by them, together with
the name of the officer who delivered the box. They shall
deliver all the ballot-boxes so sealed as aforesaid to the clerks
of the circuit court for their respective counties or to the board
of police commissioners of Baltimore city, as the case may be,
who shall put them in a secure place, to which the public shall
in no case have access, and shall safely keep them for the space
of six months from the day of such delivery, at which time,
unless previously notified to produce the same to be used in
evidence in some contested election or judicial or legislative
investigation then pending, the said board of supervisors shall,
in the presence of one or more judges of the orphans' court,
destroy said ballots and poll-books, also all of the said tallies,
including those delivered to the register of wills, and shall
record in the same book a certificate of the fact, signed by said
judge or judges.

Canvassing Boards.

Ibid. sec. 72.

77. It shall be the duty of the said county commissioners,
clerks of court and mayor, respectively, to keep safely, under