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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 548

tally sheet and duplicate statements of returns authenticated
as above provided for shall be sealed in an envelope pro-
vided for that purpose, on the back of which the judges and
clerks shall write their names across the seal; this envelope
shall be directed to the supervisors of election and given to
the return judge, who shall deliver the same with the seal
unbroken, together with the ballot-boxes, which shall con-
tain the voted tickets (stringed), locked and sealed by a
strip of paper containing the signatures of the judges and
clerks, which shall cover the opening in the top and keyhole
so that the same cannot be tampered with in any manner.
He shall also return the registry books and other election
paraphernalia in the same manner. The supervisors of

Return board
formed.

election shall meet on the Tuesday following the primary
election, and receive the returns from the return judges. The
supervisors shall on that day form a return board similar to
that required by the general election laws of the State, and
shall proceed to cast up the returns of the respective parties
for the entire county. When this is completed and the
result announced, the supervisors shall certify to the gov-
erning boards of said respective political parties, the result
of the said primary election.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That in all cases it shall

Affirmative
vote.

require an affirmative vote of the judges of election to
exclude any ballot which shall have complied with the
requirements of law.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the fore-
going Act shall not apply to any primaries held by either of

Not applicable

said political parties for the selection of delegates to Con-
gressional, judicial or State conventions, or conventions
called to nominate candidates for any other offices than those
referred to in this Act.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the cost of conducting

Expenses to be ,
equally met.

said primaries, including the cost of advertising and printing
tickets, shall be paid in equal proportions by the candidates
of the two political parties whose primaries are conducted
under the provisions of this Act, to the supervisors of elec-
tion at least twenty days before the date of holding said
primaries, and the supervisors of election shall not place
upon the official ballot to be voted for at the succeeding
general election the names of any party candidates who have