LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

of votes received by each candidate. If requested by any
watcher or challenger present at any canvass, it shall be the
duty of the judges, and each of them, to exhibit to such
watcher or challenger any ballot cast, fully opened or in such
condition and manner that he may fully read and examine the
same, but the judge shall not allow any ballot to be taken from
their hands. As the ballots are counted they shall be strung
upon a strong twine.
270 I I I. When the canvass of the ballots shall have been

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completed, and the clerk shall have announced to the judges
the total number of votes received by each candidate, each
of the judges of election, in return, shall then proclaim in a
loud voice the total number of votes received by each person
voted for in such precinct and the office for which he is desig-
nated, and the number of votes for and the number of votes
against any proposition which shall have been submitted to the
vote of the people ; such proclamation shall be prima fade
evidence of the result of the canvass of such ballots.

ELECTION RETURNS.
270 J J J. The judges shall make duplicate statements or

Announce-
ment of
result.

returns of the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if
possible, be made upon a single sheet of paper, and shall con-
tain a caption stating the day on which and the number of the
election precinct of the city in relation to which said state-
ments shall be made, and the time of opening and closing the
polls of such precinct, 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 proposi-
tion of any kind has been submitted to a vote at such election,
such statements shall also show in like manner the whole num-
ber of votes cast, for or against such proposition, and at the
end of such statement shall be written a certificate that the
same is correct in all respects, which certificate and each sheet

Judges to
make dupli-
cate
returns.

of paper forming part of the statement 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 of the statements shall be enclosed in an
envelope, which shall then 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 directed to the City Register of said city
and one to the Board of Aldermen of said city. Each set of

Certificate of
judges and
clerks.