EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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against any proposition which shall have been submitted
to the vote of the people. The judges shall make dupli-
cate 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 the
town, county, State and the day on which said statement
shall be made and the time of opening and closing the
polls, 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 statement shall also show in like manner
the whole number of votes cast for or against such propo-
sition, and at the end of such statement shall be written a

CHAP. 458

Duplicate
statements
to be made

certificate that the same is correct in all respects, which cer-
tificate and each sheet of paper forming a part of the state-
ment 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 one of the
statements with one of the tally sheets, signed by the judges
and clerks, shall be enclosed in an envelope, which shall 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 addressed and delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Talbot county, and one to the town clerk by the chief
judge.

58. There shall be no canvassing or electioneering in said

Certificate
given.

polling place or within one hundred feet of the same, nor
shall any one linger, be or remain within said distance of
one hundred feet of the polls except election officials and
peace officers, unless it be in approaching the polls to vote,
or in passing along the streets in the usual and orderly
manner of travel. Any person violating the provisions
thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
arrest and conviction before the police justice for Easton
district of Talbot county shall be subject to a fine of not
less than $5.00 and not more than $50.00, and it shall be
the special duty of all conservators of the peace to attend to
the strict enforcement of this Act.

No canvassing
allowed with-
in 100 feet of
polls.