EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the same are hereby severally repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows :

73. The judges shall make duplicate statements or returns
of the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible,

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be made upon a single sheet of paper and shall contain a cap-
tion stating the day on which and the number of the election
precinct, and the county or ward of the city in relation to
which said statement shall be made, and the time of opening
and closing the polls of such precinct, and showing the
whole number of votes in the ballot-box, and the whole
number of votes given for each person, designating the office
for which they were given. Such statement shall be written

Duplicate
returns
made.

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 statements shall also show in like
manner the whole number of votes cast for or against such
proposition, and at the end of such statement shall be writ-
ten a certificate that the same is correct in all respects ;
which certificate and each sheet of paper forming a part of
the statement shall be subscribed by the judges and clerks.
If any judge or clerk shall decline to sign 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 envelope 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

Statement to
be made in
writing.

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 tallies 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. If any judge
or clerk shall decline to sign said set of tallies, or either of
them, he shall state his reason therefor in writing, and a
copy thereof, signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each
tally sheet. 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.

How envelopes
shall be
directed.