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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 cross-mark shall be
placed, and no ballot shall be rejected solely because any part
or portions 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 shall 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 received by each candidate, and when
they agree upon the numbers one of them shall announce in a
loud voice to the judges the aggregate number of votes received
by each candidate. If requested by any watcher or challenger
present at any canvass, it shall be the duty of the judges and
each of them to exhibit to such watcher or challenger any ballot
cast, fully opened or in such condition and manner that he
may fully read and examine the same, but the judges shall not
allow any ballot to be taken from their hands. As the ballots
are counted they shall be strung upon a strong twine.

Approved April 1st, 1914.

CHAPTER 226.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 4, Public Local Laws,
entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Fire," to be known
as Section 445-A.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 227.

AN ACT to provide for the erection and equipment of a public
school building at Ocean City in Worcester County by joint
appropriation by the State of Maryland and the County Com-
missioners of Worcester County and the furnishing and dona-
tion of the site therefor by the Mayor and City Council of
Ocean City.

WHEREAS, It is the settled policy of this State and so declared
in the Declaration of Rights that the Legislature ought to en-