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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

146. The board of police commissioners of Baltimore city shall

send together with the ballot-boxes, and at the time and in the

method now provided for the delivery thereof, to the judges of the
election, and shall deliver with the ballot-box to the said judges

of each precinct in said city, one set of the said ballots, together

Shall sen
ballots.

with the specimen ballots and cards of instructions for the said

precincts; the other set of such ballots shall be obtained in the

possession of the said board of police commissioners upon the

requisition in writing of the presiding or return judge, or of any

two judges of the election in any precinct, that the second set of

ballots are needed for the use of the voters therein, the board of

police commissioners shall deliver to said judges through the

hands of one or more of their officers the second set of ballots,

taking a receipt from said judges therefor.

147. The said sheriffs of the several counties shall send to the

several voting places in their counties both sets of the said bal-

lots, together with the specimen ballots and cards of instruction,

at the same time with and in the same manner now provided by

Sheriff
shall de-

law for delivering to them the ballot-boxes, and one set of ballots

liver.

together with the specimen ballots and cards shall be delivered

to the return judge, and the other set of ballots shall be delivered

to the return judge, and the other set of ballots shall be delivered

to the judge who is of a different political party from the return

judge, and said judges shall respectively, receipt to the sheriff

therefor.

148. At the opening of the polls in each polling-place in the

city of Baltimore and the several counties, the seals of the

packages of the first set of ballots, and of the specimen ballots

and cards of instruction shall be publicly broken by the return

judge of election, and the packages, books or blocks of ballots

Seals to

shall be delivered into the custody of the ballot clerks, herein-

be broken

after provided for; the cards of instruction shall be immediately

posted in or at each voting shelf or compartment provided for

marking the ballots, and not less than three of the cards and not

less than five specimen ballots shall immediately be posted up

conspicuously about the polling-place; if it shall become neces-

sary to use the second set of ballots, it shall be received by the

judges in the city of Baltimore from the board of police commis-

sioners as hereinbefore stated, and in the several counties from

the said judge to whom the second set has been confided, and

shall be opened and dealt with in all respects as the first set.

149. If it should so happen that the tickets prepared and

Duplicate

printed by the board of police commissioners or by the said board
of supervisors of elections respectively, should be destroyed, lost

or stolen, or should be inaccessible to them for any reason, they

shall proceed expeditiously to prepare and cause to be printed

two sets of duplicates thereof, and shall proceed as near as may