1112 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

affect the validity of this Act or operate to prevent its taking
effect; the said Supervisors of Elections shall deliver to one of
the judges of each election district to be named as hereinafter
set forth, the registration books of the County for use at the
said special election, in the manner as now used at other elec-
tions. At said special election each legally qualified voter, as
determined by the registration books as of that date, shall be
entitled to cast a ballot with the words "For License" and the
words "Against License" printed thereon, by making a cross
(X) with lead pencil either in the square opposite "For
License," or in the square opposite "Against License," as he
may see fit. The said Supervisors of Elections shall also cause
to be printed a sufficient number of ballots for use at said spe-
cial election with the words "For License" and "Against
License," printed thereon in bold twelve-point pica type, on
separate lines; with a square or box to the right and opposite
the words "For License" and a corresponding square or box to
the right and opposite the words "Against License;" said bal-
lots shall be printed on opaque white paper, shall be officially
authenticated by a fac-simile of the signature of the President
of said Board of Supervisors of Elections printed on the back
thereof, together with the proper designation of the respective
election districts in which the same is respectively to be used,
printed immediately above the facsimile aforesaid; and no bal-
lot shall be counted which is not printed as hereinbefore pro-
vided and which does not bear the initials of the judge who shall
officiate in the district in which the ballot is cast at said special
election in the capacity of delivering the ballot to the voter; the
said Supervisors of Election shall also furnish and deliver to
one of the judges of said special election on the day preceding
the date thereof a glass ballot-box, of the kind used in said
Charles County at the general elections heretofore held there in,
in which the said ballots shall be deposited by one of the judges
at said special election, the ballots cast at said special election
in each election district shall be counted and tabulated and re-
turns made out at the close of the polls, and the result certified
by the judges and clerks to the said Supervisors of Elections of
Charles County for the purposes of canvassing the same and de-
claring the general result of said special election, on Tuesday,
the nineteenth day of May, in the year nineteen hundred and
fourteen, at ten o'clock A. M. said Supervisors of Elections of
said "County shall not later than the fourth Tuesday in April,
in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen select and appoint
two judges and two clerks for each election, district of said