FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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in their office for six mouths after each election, with refer-

ence to which it was made and shall then be destroyed, un-

less a contest shall have occurred with respect to some office

embraced therein, when the same shall be preserved until

said contest shall be ended.

161 EE. There shall be provided for each voting place,

at which an election is to be held, two sets of such ballots,

Two sets

each of not less than one hundred for every fifty or fraction

of Ballots.

of fifty registered voters therein, and it shall be the duty of

the registers of voters in each ward in which any of the

elections hereinbefore mentioned is to be held, to certify to

the board of supervisors of election, immediately after the

close of the last sitting of the registers in each year the

number of registered voters in each ward ; the officers here-

inbefore charged with the duty of preparing the ballots shall

furnish the ballots for use in each such election, and also

cause to be printed, without the fac-simile endorsements,

ten or more copies of the form of the ballot provided for

each voting place at each election therein, which shall be

called specimen ballots, and shall be furnished with the

other ballots provided for each such voting place.

161 FF. It shall be the duty of said board of supervisors

Copies of

to furnish any persons applying therefor copies of any

Nomina-

certificate of nominations, nomination papers or withdrawal

tion Pa-
pers

papers filed with them, for which they shall be entitled to

charge the same rates as for copies of papers made by the

clerk of the court.

161 GG. The said board of supervisors of election shall

Sample

three days, at least, prior to the day of any election in the

Ballots
to be

city of Hagerstown, cause to be conspicuously posted in one

Posted

or more public places in each ward sample copies of the

ballots to be used in such district or precinct.

161 HH. The board of supervisors of election shall before

the opening of the polls on the day of election in any ward

Supervisors

send together with the ballot boxes and deliver with the

to deliver
ballots and

ballot box to the judges of election in each ward one set of

boxes

said ballots, together with the specimen ballots and cards

of instructions for the said wards ; the other set of such

ballots shall be retained in the possession of the said board

of supervisors of elections ; upon the requisition in writing

of the presiding or return judge, or of any two judges of the

election in any ward, that the second set of ballots are

needed for the use of the voters therein, the board of super-

visors shall deliver to said judges through the hands of a

policeman the second set of ballots, taking a receipt from

said judges therefore; a record shall be kept by said board

of supervisors of the time when such dealing was made and