HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

book, and also to perform such other duties
as are prescribed by this act to be by them
performed.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That no person
shall be permitted to be in the room selected
as the polling-place of the ward, during the
time any such election is being held, except
the Judges, Clerks and such Police Officers
who may be designated to attend thereat by
the Police Board, upon request made to said

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Board in writing by the executive committee
of the city convention of the party holding
the election; after the election is closed, any
candidate, or a person designated by him,
and such other persons whom, in the judg-
ment of the Judges of Election it may be
proper to admit, to guarantee the fairness of
the count, shall be entitled to be present dur-
ing the counting of the ballots.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That when the
poll shall be closed the box wherein the bal-
lots are deposited shall immediately there-
after be opened by the Judge or Judges of

Room— Who
admitted.

Election, and the said Judge or Judges shall
publicly, in the presence of the persons desig-
nated in the preceding section, carefully take
out the said ballots and read distinctly and
aloud the name or names written or printed
thereon respectively, and the Clerks of said
election shall carefully enter and keep an ac-
count of the same on the poll-book so that the
number of votes for each candidate tallied
thereon may be readily cast up and known.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That if upon open-
ing any of said ballots there be found any

Count ballots.

more names written or printed thereon than
there ought to be, or if any two or more of
such ballots be deceitfully folded together, or
if the purpose for which the vote is given is not
plainly designated thereon, such ballot shall
be rejected and not counted.

Illegal ballots.