HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 149
CHAPTER 94.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 224
of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland (Edition of 1924), title "Elections", sub-title
"Voting Machines", relating to the use of voting machines;
to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 224A of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Elections", sub-title
"Voting Machines", providing for the purchase and use of
voting machines at elections in Baltimore City, for the
appointment of a board to purchase voting machines for use
in Baltimore City, for reduction in the number of and
change in the boundaries of election precincts in Baltimore
City, for the elimination of clerks of election where voting
machines are used, for the preparation and form of ballots
for use in voting machines, for the time allowed each voter
in the use of voting machines, for the duties of election
officials, for inspecting voting machines used in contested
primary elections, for the time of opening and closing of
polls where voting machines are used, and to add nineteen
sections to said Article 33 under said sub-title "Voting
Machines", to be known as Sections 224E to 224W, inclu-
sive, of said Article, denning certain terms used in said
sub-title, fixing certain requirements as to the nature and
construction of voting machines to be acquired and used,
and the form of ballot labels to be used on said machines,
providing for the preparation of voting machines by the
Supervisors of Election, and the delivery of said voting
machines and supplies by said Supervisors to the judges of
election, providing for the instruction of judges of election
and for the examination of voting machines in the polling
places and the final preparation thereof, providing for in-
struction of voters before an election, and instruction and
assistance of voters on election day, prescribing the manner
of voting in primary elections by the use of such machines
and the manner of voting for Presidential electors, providing
for the canvass of the vote and the disposition of the ma-
chines after the election, and for the return of the votes, pro-
viding for a re-canvass of the vote, and for the custody of the
voting machines and the keys thereof, prescribing penal-
ties, providing for the applicability of the election laws, and
for the validity of such portions of this Act as shall not
be declared unconstitutional in case other portions thereof
shall be declared unconstitutional, and providing for the re-
pealing of laws or portions of laws in conflict herewith, and
declaring this Act to be an emergency law.