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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing
Section hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitu-
tion of this State shall be, at the next general election to
be held in this State in the year 1948, submitted to the legal
and qualified voters thereof for their adoption or rejection
in pursuance of directions contained in Article 14 of the
Constitution of this State, and at the said general election,
the vote on the said proposed amendment shall be by
ballot, and upon each ballot there shall be printed the
words "For the Constitutional Amendment" and "Against
the Constitutional Amendment," as now prescribed by law,
and immediately after said election, due returns shall be
made to the Governor of the vote for and against said
proposed amendment as directed by said Article 14 of the
Constitution.

Approved March 15, 1947.

CHAPTER 110.
(Senate Bill 144)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
73 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Elections," sub-title "Elections,"
as said Article was revised by Chapter 934 of the Acts
of 1945, relating to marking ballots.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 73 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Elections," sub-title "Elec-
tions," as said Article was revised by Chapter 934 of the
Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

73. The judges shall open the ballot box and count
and announce the whole number of ballots in the box.
They shall reject any ballots which are deceitfully folded
together and any ballots which do not have endorsed there-
on the name or initial of the judge who held the ballots,
or if there shall be any mark on the ballot other than the
cross-mark in a square opposite the name of a candidate,
or other than the name or names of any candidates written
by the voter on the ballot as provided in Section 57, such
ballot shall not be counted. Ballots not counted for such
defects shall be marked "Defective," on the back thereof

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