FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January session,
in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

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161 H H. The board of supervisors of election shall, previous
to the opening of the polls for any election in any ward or
wards, but not more than forty-eight hours previous thereto,
deliver to the chief of police of the city of Hagerstown, the
ballot boxes, one set of said ballots, together with the
specimen ballots, cards of instructions, sample ballots and
copies of the sections enumerated in section 161 I I for said
ward or wards, and the. said chief of police shall, before the
opening of the polls on the day of election in any ward, in
person or through subordinate policemen duly qualified, deliver
to the judges of election in each ward the articles hereinbefore
enumerated in this section; the other set of such ballots shall
be retained in the possession of the said board of supervisors
of election; upon the requisition in writing of the presiding or
return judge, or of any two judges of the election in any
ward, that the second set of ballots are needed for the use of
the voters therein, the board of supervisors shall deliver to
said judges, through the hands of a policeman, the second set
of ballots, taking a receipt from said judges therefor; a record
shall be kept by said board of supervisors of the time when
such delivery was made and of the particulars thereof, and
the same with said receipts shall be preserved for six months,
unless a contest has occurred with reference to any office which
was embraced in the ballots, and then until the contest is
ended, when they shall be destroyed.

Supervisors
to deliver
ballots and
boxes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

Effective.