FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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or names written or printed thereon respectively, and the

clerks of said election shall carefully enter and keep an

account of the same on the books of the polls, so that the

number of votes for each candidate tallied thereon may be

readily cast up and known ; when all the ballots have been

canvassed the poll clerks shall compare their tallies together,

and ascertain the total number of voters received by each

candidate, and when they agree upon the numbers one of

them shall announce in a loud voice to the judges and those

present the number of votes received by each candidate, as

soon as the ballots shall be read oft' and counted, and the

number for each candidate reckoned up and ascertained, the

judge or judges of election shall make out under his or

their hands, attested by the clerks of election or one of them

on the books of the polls, two plain fair and distinct state-

ments and certificates of the number of votes which shall

have been then and there given for each candidate, distin-

guishing the station or office for which he has been voted;

the said numbers shall be expressed in words at length and

not in figures only according to the following form, or to the

like effect, to-wit : State of Maryland, city of Hagerstown,

to-wit : We the undersigned duly appointed by the board of

supervisors of election of the city of Hagerstown in due form

Certificate

of law, judge or judges of election in this ward, number ——

do hereby certify and return that we did attend on the ——

day of —— at —— , the place appointed by law for holding

the elections within said ward, we further certify that we

did then and there before a justice of the peace of the State

of Maryland, in and for Washington County, qualify as

judge or judges of the electiou as by law directed, and did

then and there at the hour of —— o'clock in the morning open

the polls for an election for —— ; that we continued the polls

open until six o'clock in the evening of the same day, when

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they were closed, the ballot box opened, and the ballots

publicly counted, when it appeared that —— votes as ——

given under our hands at the place of said election this ——

day of —— attested by —— clerk a copy of the count as entered

and endorsed on the books of the polls as hereinbefore pro-

vided, shall at the close of said election as soon as the court

is closed and result ascertained, be placed together with all

the ballots cast at said election in the ballot box by the

judges of election, and the ballot box shall be locked and

the key removed therefrom, and the ballot box delivered to

the chief judges of the election or his associate of the same

political party, and the key thereof to the minority judge of
election for safe keeping until as hereinafter provided, where-

upon the judges of election shall all write their names on a

strip of paper of sufficient length for the following purpose :