114 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

inserted it will tear the paper so pasted over the keyhole; such
paper shall be securely fastened with sealing wax or some
other adhesive material, and said box shall not be re-opened
until at a meeting of the governing body of the party holding
said primary election hereinafter provided for. And upon
sealing the ballot box as in Section 160 H of this Act provided,
the same, together with the primary election registration book
or register, shall be delivered to and taken charge of by the
return judge for each election district or precinct, who shall
carefully guard and present the same to the meeting of the
governing body to be held in the court house in each county
at eleven o'clock A. M. on Tuesday next succeeding the date
of such primary election, and after the returns shall have been
canvassed and the results shall have been announced by the
governing body of the party holding such primary election, as
hereinafter directed, provided it shall be the duty of the return
judge of each election district or precinct to deliver said ballot
box and primary election register to the clerk of the Board of
Election Supervisors of each county. The governing bodies
of the respective parties holding the primary election held
under the provisions of this Act, shall respectively assemble in
the court house of each county at eleven o'clock A. M. on Tues-
day next succeeding the day of such primary election of their
respective parties, receive the ballot boxes from the return
judges, sealed as provided in this Act, and shall proceed in
public to canvass the vote cast at such primary election and
publicly to announce the result thereof, if any protest against
the result is announced by the judges of any election district
or districts, is submitted to said governing. body before the
canvass of the votes of the entire county is completed, said
governing body shall consider and determine any controversy
that may arise in respect thereto and the decision of said body
thereon shall be final. Any vacancy which may exist in respect
to any office or position, after the returns have been canvassed
and the final result announced, shall be filled as the rules and
regulations of the governing bodies for the respective counties
of the several parties may now or shall hereafter provide.

SEC. 160J. Each of said judges appointed under this Act
shall have power to cause the arrest of any one violating any of
the provisions hereof, and in the absence of any person author-
ized by law to make arrests said judge may designate some
person for that purpose, and each of the judges shall be con-
servators of the peace in their respective primary election polls,
at which they may act as such judges, and may in the manner
herein provided cause the arrest of any person disturbing the
peace, and cause the party so arrested to be committed for the