102 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That Section 121 of Article 33 of
the Code of Public General Laws of 1904, be and the same is
hereby repealed so far as the same applies to Dorchester and
Queen Anne's counties.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1908. »

CHAPTER 576.

AN ACT to repeal Section 71 of Article 33 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Elections, " sub-
title "Count of the Ballots, " and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 71 of Article 33 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland of 1904, title "Elections, " sub-title
"Count of the Ballots, " be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

71. The judges shall open the ballot box and count and an-
nounce the whole number of ballots in the box. They shall
reject any ballots which are deceitfully folded together, and any
ballots which do not have indorsed thereon the name or initial
of the judge who held the ballots, if the voter has marked more
names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if
there shall be any mark on the ballot other than the cross-
mark in a square opposite the name of a candidate, or other
than the name or names of any candidates written by the voter
on the ballot as provided in Section 53, his ballot shall not be
counted. Ballots not counted for such defects shall be marked
"Defective" on the back thereof and shall be wrapped in a sepa-
rate package and returned to the ballot box as hereinafter
directed. No vote shall be counted for any candidate opposite
whose name no cross-mark shall be placed, and no ballot shall
be rejected solely because any part or portion of the cross-mark
extends beyond the square, if the point of intersection of the
cross-mark is within the square. They shall open the ballots,
and all of them shall be canvassed separately by one of the
judges sitting between two other judges, which judge call out
each name and the office for which it is designated and the
other judges looking at the ballot at the same time, and the
clerks making tally of the same. When all the ballots have been
canvassed in this manner, the election clerks shall compare
their tallies together and ascertain the total number of votes re-