580 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 341

before the first Monday in May in each biennium appoint
two qualified voters in each ward of said town to act as
clerks of election in their ward, and the said two clerks of
election together with the supervisors of election shall attend
on the first Monday in May, 1947, except as modified in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3 hereafter set
out, and on the first Monday in May in each and every
second year thereafter, and at such other times as spe-
cial elections for any purpose may be called under this
sub-title, or under any other Act of Assembly, at the
place where such elections are to be held in accordance
with the notice thereof posted as aforesaid, and after each
taking the constitutional oath of office before some person
duly qualified to administer oaths, they shall proceed between
the hours of 7 o'clock A. M. and 7 o'clock P. M. on such date
to receive the votes of those persons whose names shall be
found upon the registration books who shall then and there
present themselves for the purpose of voting.

43-_. (Ballot Boxes.) The election supervisors, under
the direction of the Town Election Supervisor, shall pro-
vide one or more glass ballot boxes, similar to those used in
State elections of the State of Maryland, which shall be used
at all elections held hereunder, and they shall also provide
booths at the ratio of one for each 100 registered voters, or
fractional part thereof.

43J. (Voting Procedure.) Any person offering to vote
whose name shall appear upon the registration books and
who shall establish his identity to the satisfaction of the
judges for the particular voters' ward, shall be furnished
by one of the said judges with an official ballot having the
initials of said judge thereon, and he shall then repair to
one of the booths or compartments and therein mark his
ballot with a pencil making a cross (X) mark in the square
opposite the name of each candidate for whom he may desire
to vote. He shall then fold the ballot without displaying
the marks thereon and return it to one of the judges of elec-
tion, who shall in his presence deposit it in the ballot box,
and his name shall be checked for that purpose. Any voter
who shall spoil a ballot so that he cannot vote it may return
said ballot to the deputy judge and receive another in its
stead, and he shall in the same way be entitled to a third
ballot, but no more; said spoiled ballots shall be immediately
cancelled by the deputy judge by endorsing thereon the word
"Spoiled". No voter shall be allowed more than seven min-
utes within which to vote. Each clerk of election shall keep
a poll book containing a column headed "Number", and