ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ively, and the clerks of said election shall care-
fully 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

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readily cast up and known ; when all the bal-
lots have been canvassed the poll clerks shall
compare their tallies together and ascertain the
total number of votes received by each candi-
date, 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. In the sev-
eral counties the sheriff, or such person as the
judges shall name in the absence of the sheriff,
or one of his deputies, and in Baltimore city the
board of police commissioners shall have power,
and it shall be their duty to preserve order dur-
ing the counting of the votes, and see that the
duly accredited representative of each party
shall be admitted into the polling-rooms to wit-
ness the count.
40. A copy of the count as entered and en-
dorsed on the books of the polls as hereinbefore

Compare
tallies.

provided shall be, at the close of said election,
delivered to each one of the representatives of
the candidates voted for at said election entitled
to be present at the count, and another copy
thereof with all the ballots cast at any election
shall also, as soon as the count is closed and re-
sult ascertained, be placed in the ballot-box by
the judges of election, and the ballot-box shall be
locked and the key removed therefrom, and the
ballot-box delivered to the chief judge of the
election or his associate of the same political
party, and the key thereof to the minority judge
of election for safe keeping until as hereinafter

Copy of
count— who
delivered to.

provided ; thereupon the judges of election shall
all write their names on a strip of paper of suffi-
cient length for the following purpose : said
strip shall be pasted over the keyhole of the
ballot-box in such a manner that the signatures
shall extend across the opening of the lid, and
so that when the key is inserted it will tear the
paper so pasted over the keyhole ; such paper
shall be securely fastened to the box with sealing-
wax or other adhesive material. Within three
days after an election, and sooner, if practicable,

Write names
on strip of pa-
per.