160 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 94

and shall see whether they are the same as the numbers
written on the envelope containing the keys. If either num-
ber shall be found not to agree, the envelope shall remain
unopened until the judges of election shall have notified the
custodian of voting machines, or the Board of Supervisors of
Election, and until the custodian or some other person author-
ized by the said Board shall have presented himself at the
polling-place for the purpose of re-examining the machine,
and shall have certified that it is properly arranged.

(d) But if the numbers on the seal and the protective coun-
ter or device shall be found to agree with the numbers on
the envelope, the judges shall examine the registering coun-
ters, and, for that purpose, shall open the doors concealing
such counters, if the construction of the voting machine shall
so require, and, before the polls are opened, the judges shall
carefully examine every counter, and shall see that it registers
zero (000), and shall allow the watchers to examine the coun-
ters.

(e) If the ballot-labels containing the names of offices, par-
ties, candidates, and questions, shall not be in their proper
places on the voting machine, the judges, forthwith, shall
notify the custodian of voting machines, or the Board of
Supervisors of Election, and the machine shall not be used
until the custodian, or some other person authorized by the
said Board, shall have supplied ballot-labels as herein pre-
scribed. If the ballot-labels for a voting machine shall not
be delivered at the time required, or if, after delivery, they
shall be lost, destroyed, or stolen, the Board of Supervisors
of Election or custodian shall cause other ballot-labels to be
prepared, printed or written, as nearly in the form of the
official ballot-labels as practicable, and shall cause such ballot-
labels to be used in the same manner, as nearly as may be,
as the official ballot-labels would have been used.

(f) The judges of election shall sign a certificate showing:
(1) the identifying number or other designation of the voting
machine; (2) the delivery of the keys in a sealed envelope;
(3) the number on the seal upon the machine; (4) the num-
ber registered on the protective counter or device; (5) that
all of the counters were set at zero (000); (6) that the ballot-
labels are properly placed in the machine; and (7) that every
vote indicator in connection with or belonging to a blank
space immediately adjacent (either horizontally or vertically)
to the space containing the name of any candidate or the
word "Yes" or "No, " "For" or "Against, " in connection with
any question, is locked against operation, which certificate
shall be returned by the judges of election to the Board of
Supervisors of Election with the other certificates as herein-
after provided.