200 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 117

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 78 of Article 33 of the Code of Public Civil
Laws (Bagby) be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

78. The Board of Supervisors of Election, upon receiving
a ballot box and the key thereof, shall note the condition of the
seal or stamp on each box, and make an entry of the facts touch-
ing the same, in a book to be kept by them, together with the
name of the officer who delivered the box. They shall deliver
all the ballot boxes so sealed, as aforesaid, to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for their respective counties, or to the Board of
Police Commissioners of Baltimore City, as the case may be,
who shall put them in a secure place to which the public shall
in no case have access, and shall safely keep them for the space
of four months from the date of such delivery, at which
time, unless previously notified to produce the same to be used
in evidence in some contested election or judicial or legislative
investigation then pending, said Board of Supervisors shall
destroy, or cause to be destroyed said ballots and poll books,
also all of the said tallies and statements or returns, and shall
record in the same book a certificate of the fact.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1st.

Approved March 31st, 1916.

CHAPTER 117.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 33-A of Bagby's Code,
title "Eminent Domain, " to follow Section 7 and to be
known as 7-A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section is hereby added to Article 33-A of
Bagby's Code, title "Eminent Domain", to follow Section 7,
to be designated as 7-A and to read as follows:

7-A. The Court may, in its discretion, permit the opening
statements of counsel to be made before the jury is sent to
view the premises; and the Court also may, in its discretion,
send the jury to view said premises, as provided in Section 7,
in charge either of the sheriff as therein provided, or of a
bailiff of the Court.

Approved March 31st, 1916.