130 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 78

(g) The ballot may be marked and mailed any time after
you receive it; provided it be marked on or before election day,
and mailed in time to arrive at its destination not more than,
7 days after election day. If not there by such time, it will
not be counted.

To the above directions should be added all such further
directions as the Supervisors of Elections shall deem necessary
in order to properly inform the voter of the correct manner
to mark and fold the ballot and to comply with the provisions
of this Act.

224. The Supervisors of Elections of the Counties and of
Baltimore City shall have the ballots printed for each election
as soon as possible after they have received the certificates of
nominations or candidates for nominations in compliance with
the election laws. The Supervisors of Elections shall also have
the envelopes and cards of instructions printed in time to be
sent out with the ballots, and shall begin mailing ballots to
applicants immediately after the ballots, envelopes and cards
of instructions have been printed.

225. The Secretary of State shall open all return envel-
opes delivered to him not more than seven days after the date
of the election day written thereon, shall withdraw therefrom
the ballot envelopes and shall transmit such ballot envelopes
unopened, unmarked and unchanged in any way in packages
sealed by him to the respective Supervisors of Elections from
whom the return envelopes shall appear to have been sent to
the absent voter whose name appears upon the ballot envelope.
All envelopes received by the Secretary of State more than
seven days after the date of any election shall be preserved by
him for 60 days, and then destroyed unless ordered to be longer
kept by some court having competent jurisdiction.

226. On the tenth day after each election not counting the
date of said election, the Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore
City and of the several counties shall meet at the hour of 12
o'clock noon at the usual place for holding the Circuit Court
for the county or in Baltimore City at the usual place for hold-
ing the Superior Court, and shall there count, certify and can-
vass the ballots contained in the ballot envelopes received by
them up to such time from the Secretary of State as herein-
before provided, and for the purposes of said count, certifica-
tion and canvass said Supervisors of Elections shall act as and
be judges of election for counting said ballots. If said super-
visors or a majority of them are satisfied that the provisions