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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be constructed as follows : Each box shall be one foot, outside
measure, as near as may be, in width and length, and eighteen
inches in depth, strapped and secured on each edge and corner,
with brass mouldings, securely brazed or soldered together at
the junction thereof, so as to prevent it from being easily
broken ; it shall have a strong wooden lid, which shall be fas-
tened to the box with brass or iron hinges, not accessible from
the outside, and shall have a good Yale lock ; there shall be a
slit in the lid just large enough to admit a single folded ballot
at one time, and the sides and bottoms of the box shall be of
clear plate glass not less than one-eight of an inch in thickness.
Each such box, when not in actual use at a polling place, shall
be kept in a wooden case for the protection of the same and
its contents in tho transportation and storage thereof.

270 Q Q. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of
Elections to provide ballots for every election for public

Ballots, how
to be
printed.

officers held under this Article in which any voters within said
city shall participate, and to cause to be printed on the ballot
the name of every candidate whose name has been certified
to or filed with the proper officers in the manner herein pro-
vided for ; but the said supervisors shall not be required to
print any name upon a ballot if the same shall not have been
certified to them at least six days before election day. Each
ballot shall also contain a statement of every question to be
submitted to the vote of the people at any election. Ballots
other than those printed by the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions according to the provisions of this Article shall not be
cast or counted, in any election except as hereinafter provided.
Nothing in this Article contained shall prevent any voter from
writing on his ballot and marking in the proper place the
name of any person other than those already printed for
whom he may desire to vote for any office, and such vote shall
be counted the same as if the name of such person had been
printed upon the ballot and marked by the voter. Any voter
may take with him into the polling place any printed or writ-
ten memorandum or paper to assist him in making or prepar-
ing his ballot except a facsimile of the ballot to be voted.
Ballots shall be printed and in possession of the Supervisors of
Elections, at least four days before election day, and shall be
subject to the inspection of the candidates and their agents.
If any mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of said super-
visors to correct the same without delay ; and if said super-
visors shall decline or refuse to make correction, then, upon
the sworn petition of any qualified voter who would have the