LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

city of Baltimore, as hereinafter provided, the board of sup-
ervisors of such county or city shall at once cause to be
printed a sufficient number of stickers bearing the name
of such substituted nominee, and shall deliver the same in
due time to the judges of election for all of those precincts
in said county or city wherein said nominee may be voted for,
and said judges shall affix such stickers in the proper place on
each ticket before it is given out to the voter. If the resigna-
tion or disqualification or death and consequent change of
nominee shall have occurred and been made after the first
publication provided for in section 44, and before the second
publication, the board of supervisors shall, if possible, make
the proper change in the second publication.

47. Whenever a proposed constitution or constitutional
amendment, or other question, is submitted for popular ap-
proval to the voters of the State, the Secretary of State shall

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duly, and not less than thirty days before the election, certify
the same to the supervisors of elections in the counties and the
city of Baltimore, and, thereupon, the said supervisors shall
include the same in the publication provided for in section 44
of this article. If questions of local concern are to be sub-
mitted for approval to the vote of the people of a county or a
municipality, the same shall be certified to said supervisors of
elections within said period by the County Commissioners or
the Register of the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, and
shall be advertised as herein provided in the case of nominees
for county or city offices.

BALLOTS AND BALLOT-BOXES.

48. All ballots cast in elections for public officers within this
State shall be printed and distributed, as hereinafter provided.

Constitu-
tional
amend-
ments, etc.,
to be pub-
lished.

The printing of ballots and cards of instruction for the voters
in each county and the city of Baltimore, and the delivery of
the same to the judges of election, as provided in this article,
shall be at public expense, the payment of which shall be pro-
vided for by the several counties and the city of Baltimore,
respectively. All ballot boxes shall be constructed as follows:
Each box shall be one foot, outside measure, as near as may be,
in width and length, and eighteen inches in depth, strapped
and secured on each edge and corner, with brass mouldings,
securely brazed or soldered together at the junctions thereof,
so as to prevent it from being easily broken; it shall have a
strong wooden lid, which shall be fastened to the box with
brass or iron hinges, not accessible from the outside, and shall

Ballots, cards
of instruc-
tion and
ballot
boxes.