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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

place any distinguishing mark upon his ballot, or any person
who shall interfere with any voter when inside said enclosed
space, or when marking his ballot, or who shall endeavor to
induce any voter before voting to show how he marks or has

Penalty.

marked his ballot, or otherwise violate any provisions of this
article, for which no other punishment is prescribed, shall be
punished by tine of not less than tive nor more than one hun-
dred dollars.

Close of polls.

270 I I. When the poll shall be closed, the box wherein the
ballots are deposited shall immediately thereafter be opened
by the judges of election; and the said judges, in the presence
of one selected representative of each and every political
party whose candidates are voted for at such election, to be
designated in writing by said candidate, shall publicly take out
the said ballots and read distinctly and aloud the name or
names written or pointed thereon, respectively, and the clerks
of said election shall carefully enter and keep an account of the
same on the books of the polls, so that the number of votes for
each candidate tallied thereon may be readily cast up and
known; when all the ballots have been canvassed the poll clerks
shall compare their tallies together, and ascertain the total num-

Announce-
ment of
result.

ber of votes received by each candidate, and when they agree
upon the numbers, one of them shall announce in a loud voice to
the judges and those present the number of votes received by each
candidate; as soon as the ballots shall be read off and counted,
and the number for each candidate reckoned up and ascertained,
the judge or judges of election shall make out under his or their
hands, attested by the clerks of election or one of them, on the
books of the polls, two plain, fair and distinct statements and
certificates of the number of votes which shall have been
then and there given for each candidate, distinguishing the
station or office for which he has been voted; the said number
shall be expressed in words at length and not in figures only,
according to the following form or to the like effect, to wit :

Certificate of
Judges.

State of Maryland, City of Frederick, to wit : We, the under-
signed, duly appointed by the board of supervisors of election
of the City of Frederick, in due form of law, judge or judges
of election in this aldermanic district number —— , do hereby
certify and return that we did attend on the —— day of —— ,
at —— , the place appointed by law for holding the elections
within said aldermanic district; we further certify, that we
did then and there, before a justice of the peace of the State
of Maryland, in and for Frederick county, qualify as judge
or judges of election, as by law directed, and did then and