FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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son offering to vote at any such election touching his qual-

Judges of
election

ification to vote ; and after such examination, if the said

judges shall be satisfied of his right to vote the said judges

or one of them, shall deliver to him a ballot such as is pre-

scribed by the provisions of this article, and shall have

been delivered to them by the Democratic district executive

committee of the district in which such person so offered

to vote, whereupon the voter shall forthwith and without

leaving the enclosed space retire alone to one of the voting

shelves or compartments and shall prepare his ballot, and

then fold it as when delivered to him for delivery to the

judges of election or one of them, and shall keep the same

so folded until he has voted, he shall vote before he leaves

the enclosed space, and shall hand the same to the judges

or one of them with their official endorsement uppermost,

he shall mark and deliver his ballot without undue delay to

the judges or one of them and shall quit said enclosed space

as soon as he has voted, no voter shall be allowed to occupy

a voting shelf compartment for more than five minutes in

case all such shelves or compartments are in use and other

voters are waiting to occupy the same ; and the remaining

provisions of sections one hundred and fifty- five, one hun-

dred and fifty-six, one hundred and fifty-seven, and one

hundred and fifty -eight of article fifty- three of the Code of

Public General Laws of Maryland, title, "Elections," are

hereby incorporated herein and made part of this article,

and it is furthermore provided that said voting shelves or

compartments shall be furnished with curtains so arranged

as effectually to conceal the person of the voter from the

back of his head to the middle of his waist while in the act

of preparing his ballot for voting.

153. The voting at such primary elections shall be as to

voting rooms, ballots used, and manner of conducting the

same modeled and carried on as nearly as may be according

Primary
elections.

to the Australian ballot system, provided in the general

election laws of the State. And it shall be the duty of the

Democratic State Central Committee, assisted by the Demo-

cratic District Executive Committee to be selected and

appointed as hereinafter provided to make all necessary and

proper arrangements to carry into effect the provisions of

the article according to its true intent and spirit.

153 A. It shall be the duty of the Democratic Central

Committee to appoint Democratic District Executive Com-

Duty of
Democratic

mittees to consist each of five intelligent and reliable

Central

Democrats for each of the several election districts of the

Committee.

county to be known as the Democratic District Executive

Committee of the district for which it shall be named and