ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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from view of those just outside the said guard-rail; the number

of such voting shelves or compartments shall not be less than one

for every one hundred voters qualified to vote at such polling-

place, and not less than five in any voting precinct of the city of

Baltimore, and not less than three in any district or precinct

voting-place elsewhere; no persons other than the said election

officers and voters admitted as herein provided, shall be permitted

Not per-
mitted In-

within said rail except the police and the sheriff, deputy sheriffs,

side rail.

for the sole purpose of keeping order and enforcing the law and

so long only as may be necessary for this purpose and other officers

duly appointed under the revised statutes of the United States,

and in Baltimore city such number of election police as the board

of supervisors of election of said city shall see fit to appoint at

every polling-place in said city; the powers of the said election

police shall be identical with the powers of said federal super-

visors of election and the said federal marshals; similar appoint-

ments shall be made in the counties by the judges of election of

the several election districts or polling-places, and their compensa-

Election

tion shall be the same as that of the judges of election, said elec-

Police.

tion police shall receive the same compensation from the mayor

and city council of Baltimore as judges of election are paid in

said city, only so many of said election police shall be permitted

within said rail at any one time as shall be equal to the number

of said United States officials within said rail at such time and

for the same length of time; each voting shelf or compartment

shall be kept provided by the ballot clerks with proper supplies

and conveniences for marking the ballots, and each ballot shall

be marked by the voter with the cross (X) herein mentioned by

means of a rubber or other stamp, provided for each booth, and

Shall be

supplied with ink so that the cross (X) shall in all cases be as

marked

near as practicable uniform, not more than six voters in addition

to those then within the railing shall be admitted to the room at

one time, and each voter except the officers and representatives

before mentioned shall be required after voting to withdraw en-

tirely from the room; the judges of election may admit persons

from time to time to aid in determining the fact whether a voter

is entitled to vote, and such persons shall withdraw at once after

their statements shall have been given; the pay of said State

officials so to be appointed by the governor and supervisors of

election in the city of Baltimore shall be the same as that of the

judges.

154. Any person desiring to vote, shall give his name, and if

requested so to do, his residence, to one of the ballot clerks to be

designated for this purpose by the judges, who shall thereupon

Shall give
his name.

announce the same in a loud and distinct tone of voice, and if

such name is found by the judges of election upon the list of

registered voters the voter shall be allowed to enter the space en-

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