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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

of the particulars thereof, and the same with said receipts

shall be preserved for six mouths, unless a contest has

occurred with reference to any office which was embraced in

the ballots aud then until the contest is ended when they

shall be destroyed.

161 II. The said board of supervisors of elections shall pre-

Cards of in-

pare or cause to be prepared "cards of instructions," to be

struction

printed in clear large type in separate cards, full instructions

for the guidance of voters as to obtaining ballots, the manner

of marking them, the method of gaining assistance, and the

manner of obtaining new ballots in place of those acci-

dently spoiled, together with copies of sections one hun-

dred and sixty-one WW to one hundred and sixty-one AAA

inclusive, to the number of ten for each polling-place.

161 JJ. At the opening of the polls in such polling place

What to be

the seals of the packages of the first set of ballots and of the

done
when polls

specimen ballots and cards of instruction shall be publicly

open

broken by the return judge of election, and the packages,

books or blocks of ballots shall be delivered into the custody

of the ballot clerks, hereinafter 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 speci-

men ballots shall immediately be posted up conspicuously

about the polling place; if it shall become necessary to use

the second set of ballots, it shall be received by the judges

from the board of supervisors as hereinafter stated.

161 KK. If it should so happen that the ticket prepared

Duplicate
Tickets

and printed by the said board of supervisors of election

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 there-

of, and shall proceed as near as may be, with respect to

said duplicate sets as if they had been the originals.

161 LL. If it shall happen that some office or offices

shall become vacant after the time fixed for filing certificates

Vacancies
on Ticket

of nomination or nomination papers, or a candidate for any

office shall die after his name shall have been printed on the

official ballots, tickets for such office or offices alone, not ex-

ceeding four inches in length, maybe printed and may be pre-

pared and may be carried into polling room and voted at the

same time and in the same ballot box with the official ballot

and shall be counted in the same manner as the official bal-

lots ; and in the cases mentioned in this section, the name

of a candidate for such vacant office shall not be placed or

written on the official ballot or counted if found thereon.