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CHAPTER 224.

AN ACT to order and direct the Board of Police Commissioners
of Baltimore City to reinstate Charles L. Deitz, as a patrol-
man of the police force of Baltimore City.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City,
be and are hereby authorized and requested to reinstate Charles
L. Deitz, as a patrolman of the police force of the City of Balti-
more.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
date of its passage.

Approved April 1st, 1914.

CHAPTER 225.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 71
and 71-A of Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Elections," sub-title "Count

of the Ballots,'' as enacted by Chapter 492 of the Acts of 1912.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 71 and 71-A of Article 33 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland of 1904, entitled "Elections"
sub-title "Count of the Ballots" as enacted by Chapter 497 of
the Acts of 1912, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 71. The judges shall open the ballot box and count
and announce 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, 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, such 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 separate package
and returned to the ballot-box as hereinafter directed. No vote
shall be counted for any candidate opposite whose name no
crossmark shall be placed, and no ballot shall be rejected solely
because any part or portion of the cross-mark extends beyond