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in the next year preceding that in which such precincts are
divided and established, shall contain over four hundred and
fifty registered voters in the city. In dividing and establish-
ing precincts in the City of Baltimore, the new precincts shall
conform to the boundaries of the legislative and congressional
districts established by law. The precincts of each ward shall
be numbered from one upward, consecutively. The boundaries
of said precincts shall be made known by advertising in one
or more newspapers in said city one time and at least seven
weeks before the day of the next general election following
the establishment of the new boundaries. Such additional
books of registry and such copies of the original books of
registry of the year 1903, as are provided by the said board
of supervisors of elections under the provisions of this section,
and the original books of registry of Baltimore City for the
year 1903, shall be used at the general election to be held in
the City of Baltimore in said years 1904 and 1905.

154. The police commissioner in the City of Baltimore
and the clerks of the circuit courts in the counties to whom
ballots have been returned under the provisions of this Article
shall produce any such ballots in regard to which testimony
may be proposed to be taken before a justice of the peace
taking examinations in a contested election, and shall furnish
said justice copies of the same only on the order first had and
obtained from some of the courts of Baltimore City or the
circuit courts for the counties, or some one of the judges
thereof, and then, in pursuance of the terms and conditions
of said order and subject to its restrictions; and said police
commissioner of Baltimore City, and said clerks, as the case
may be, shall retain such ballots in possession and custody until
such ballots shall be required by the order of the court having
jurisdiction in the case, to be delivered to said court, or by
order of the Senate or House of Delegates, or by order of the
City Council of Baltimore, in whichever the seat is contested.

The votes recorded on voting machines, in those precincts
in which such machines shall be used, shall be proved in the
same manner as is provided by Section 224-A of this Article
in the case of primary elections.

197. The books of registry or the binders containing the
registration cards of the precinct, shall be furnished to the
judges at each polling place by the respective Boards of
Supervisors of Elections, and shall be used at such elec-
tions in the same way as they are now used at municipal,
county, judicial, congressional, or general elections held
under the provisions of said Article 33. In the books of
registry now in use, or in the books of registry or on the