200 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 95

fixed in each instance and approved by a judge of the Su-
preme Bench of Baltimore City or of the Circuit Court for
the county as the case may be, to pay the reasonable costs
of said appeal, recount, review and recanvass. The said
supervisors shall in either event produce before them the
ballot boxes, returns, tally-sheets and paraphernalia of said
election, and/or ascertain, in the manner provided by Section
224-A of this Article, the votes recorded upon the voting ma-
chines, and shall proceed forthwith in a summary way with-
out answer, pleading or technicality and without requiring
any evidence to be taken or proof submitted, to review the
actions of the Judges of Elections and recount the ballots
in those precincts named in said petition in said county, city,
legislative district, ward or other political division thereof,
as the case may be, in which paper ballots are used.

Said review, recount and recanvass shall be had with all
possible expedition and dispatch and in preference to all
other business under such mode of procedure as the Super-
visors of Elections shall prescribe by means of tellers ap-
pointed by them on the recommendation of and with equal
representation to the opposing candidates. The said super-
visors to pass upon and decide whether any ballot contested
by the teller for either side shall be rejected or counted.
They shall sit for said purpose in the court room of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City or of the Circuit Court
for the county as the case may be every day, including
Saturdays, at least from nine o'clock A. M. to five o'clock
P. M., with one hour's intermission for lunch until said re-
view, recount and recanvass is completed. Said recount
shall be had in the presence of the candidates or their repre-
sentatives and of the press and general public. Upon the
completion of said recount and recanvass the said Supervisors
shall award the costs of the same as follows:

If the result in such county, municipality, legislative dis-
trict or other district or political division as returned by
the judges of election is changed thereby or if there is a
change thereby of two per cent of the total votes recounted
the costs shall be awarded against the municipality or county
in which said recount is held. But if the result in such
county, municipality or legislative district or other political
division is not changed thereby nor two per cent or more of
the votes therein recounted is found to have been erroneously
counted, then the costs shall be awarded against the petitioner,
and his bond, if given as above, shall be liable therefor.

In case said petition only specifies a part of the precincts
in which the petitioner was voted for and if on completion
of said review and recount of such specified precincts the