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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 544

Note the
condition of
the seal or
stamp on
each box.

76. The Board of Supervisors of Elections, upon receiv-
ing a ballot-box and the key thereof, shall note the condition
of the seal or stamp on each box, and make an entry of the
facts touching the same in a book to be kept by them,
together with the name of the officer who delivered the box.
They shall deliver all the ballot-boxes so sealed as aforesaid
to the clerks of the Circuit Court for their respective
counties, or to the Board of Police Commissioners of
Baltimore city, as the case may be, who shall put them in a
secure place to which the public shall in no case have
access, and shall safely keep them for the space of six
months from the day of such delivery, at which time, unless
previously notified to produce the same to be used in evi-
dence in some contested election or judicial or legislative
investigation then pending, said Board of Supervisors shall
destroy or cause to be destroyed said ballots and poll-books,
also all of the said tallies and statements or returns, and
shall record in the same book a certificate of the fact.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Sections 77, 80
and 83 of Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws of

Repeal and
re-enact.

Maryland of 1904, title "Elections," sub-title "Canvassing
Boards," being respectively Sections 72, 75 and 78 of said

Duties of
county com-
missioners,
fete.

Article, as it was enacted by the Act of 1896, Chapter 202,
entitled "An Act to repeal Article 33, entitled 'Elections,' of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland," and the
several Acts and parts of Acts amendatory thereto, be and
the same are hereby severally repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows :
77. It shall be the duty of the said County Commissioners,
clerks of court, Mayor, register of wills and supervisors of
elections, respectively, to keep safely, under lock and key,
the said original statements or returns and tally-sheets until
the board of canvassers for the county or city, as the case
may be, shall have assembled and been organized according
to law, as hereinafter provided; whereupon the clerks of
court, County Commissioners, Mayor, register of wills and
supervisors of elections shall immediately deliver or transmit
to such board of canvassers the said statements or returns
and tally-sheets in the sealed envelopes.
80. The board of canvassers shall, upon being duly organ-

Duty of board
of canvassers

ized, open all the original statements or returns and tally-
sheets delivered or transmitted to them, and shall canvass and