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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ELECTION RETURNS'.

68. The judges shall make duplicate statements or returns of
the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible, be made
upon a single sheet of paper and shall contain a caption stating

Judges to
make dupli-
cate

returns.

the day on which and the number of the election precinct and
the county or ward of the city in relation to which said state-
ments shall be made, and the time of opening and closing the
polls of such precinct, and showing the whole number of votes
given for each person, designating the office for which they were
given. Such statements shall be written or partly written, and
partly printed in words at length, and in case a proposition of any
kind has been submitted to a vote at such election, such state-
ments shall also show in like manner the whole number of
votes cast for or against such proposition, and at the end of
finch statement shall be written a certificate that the same is
correct in all respects, which certificate and each sheet of paper
forming part of the statement, shall be subscribed by the
judges and clerks. If any judge or clerk shall decline to sign

Certificate of
judges and
clerks.

such return, he shall state his reason therefor in writing, and a
copy thereof, signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each
return. Each of the statements shall be enclosed in an enve-
lope, which shall then be securely sealed with sealing wax or
other adhesive material, and each of the judges and clerks
shall write his name across the fold of the envelope. One of
the envelopes shall be directed to the clerk of the Circuit
Court of the county or the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
as the case may be, and one to the County Commissioners or
to the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, as the case may be.
Each set of tallys shall also be signed by the election clerks
and the judges of election, and each shall be enclosed in an
envelope securely signed and sealed as aforesaid, one of which
shall be addressed to the Board of Supervisors of Elections,
and the other to the Register of Wills. On the outside of
every envelope shall be endorsed the statement that it contains
the votes cast or the tallies, and for what precinct, ward, city
or county.

Spoiled, not
voted,
rejected
and defec-
tive ballots

69. The "spoiled" and "not voted" ballots, as defined in sec-
tion sixty-three, shall be enclosed in a package to themselves
and endorsed "spoiled and not voted;" the "rejected" and
"defective ballots," as defined in said section and in section
sixty-six, shall be enclosed in a package to themselves, and
endorsed "rejected and defective." • The poll-books and the
ballots cast and counted, as well as the two before mentioned
packages of "spoiled," "not voted," "rejected" and "defective"