EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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been challenged, or shall wilfully refuse to open or show the
ballot boxes empty prior to the opening of the polls; and if
any judge of said primary election who shall make, sign,
publish or deliver any false tally or return of election, or any
false certificate or statement of the result of such primary
election, knowing the same to be false, or who shall wilfully
deface, destroy or conceal any statement, tally or certificate
entrusted to his care and custody shall upon conviction
thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less
than thirty days nor more than one year.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That in the appointment of

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judges and clerks, the member or members of the board of
supervisors of election shall have the right to name the
officials of his or their own political party. In case any
judge or clerk shall fail to be present at hour of opening the
polls, the place shall be filled by the judges present, of the
political party to which he belongs. In case no judges of
the same political party are present, then the judges of the
opposite party shall fill the vacancy. The party so appointed
must take the oath required by la.w before he can proceed to
act.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the governing bodies of

Appointment
of Judges and
clerks.

each political party shall furnish the forms of the ballot of
their respective parties, together with the manner in which
the names are to be arranged on the tickets, which shall be
done not later than ten days preceding the primary election.
To this form of ballot and list of names shall be annexed the
acknowledgment of the presiding officer of said governing
board of each political party, this acknowledgment to state
the true purport for which it is intended; the same to be
executed before some official who, by law, is authorized to
take acknowledgments of deeds and mortgages. This form
of ballot is to be published in at least two papers in Harford
county, one of each political party, if practicable, for two
successive issues before said primary election. If, for any
reason, either political party desires to make a change which
shall be made necessary on account of death or disability of
some one named in the original papers, the same shall be
executed as the said original papers and filed with the super-
visors of elections at least eight days, not counting Sundays,
before said primary election. The supervisors will not

Form of ballot
to be
furnished.