HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 661

224D. The Board of Supervisors of Election of Mont-
gomery County, in the event voting machines are acquired by
said Board as provided in Section 224B, are hereby instructed
and directed to furnish one of such voting machines for each
four hundred registered voters in each of the polling places
in said Montgomery County excepting that in case of the num-
ber of voters between the multiples of four hundred the Board
of Supervisors of Election of Montgomery County may, in their
judgment, furnish an additional voting machine.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Article 33 of the
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title
"Elections", sub-title "Voting Machines", be amended by the
addition of eight new sections, to be known as Sections 224E,
224F, 224G, 224H, 224-1, 224J, 224K and 224L, to follow im-
mediately after Section 224D of said Article, as amended, and
to read as follows:

224E. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of Mont-
gomery County shall have custody of all voting machines used
or to be used in said County, and on some day or days during
a period not less than five (5) days nor more than twenty
(20) days before any election, the Clerk of said Board, or such
assistant Clerks as the said Board may deem necessary for the
purpose, shall, in the presence of at least two members of said
Board having opposite party affiliation, prepare the voting
machines, including such reserve number of machines as said
Board deems necessary, for the ensuing election by setting all
counters at zero, placing the proper ballot labels on the
machines, locking the machines and removing the keys there-
from, and sealing each of said machines with a numbered seal
so placed that the operating lever of each machine cannot be
moved without destroying said seal. In the event a member
of said Board is unable to be present at such inspection, the
State Central Committee of the party with which such mem-
ber is affiliated shall designate in writing some voter of the
same party affiliation to attend such inspection as a substitute
for such absent member of the Board. After each voting
machine has been inspected and sealed as above, the said
Clerk or Assistant Clerk and the members of said Board
present, or their respective substitutes above provided for,
shall make and sign a certificate, in the presence of each
other, which shall be promptly filed in the office of the said
Board of Supervisors of Elections, setting forth (1) the identi-
fying serial number or other designation of each voting
machine so inspected and prepared; (2) that each registering
counter or tabulator of such machine was set at zero (000);
(3) the number appearing on the exposed counter which
registers every consecutive operation of the machine; (4) the