EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 389

voter shall be allowed more than seven minutes within which
to vote. Each Clerk of Election shall keep a poll book con-
taining a column, headed "Number, " and another headed
"Name of Voter. " All entries therein shall be made in ink and
the number and name of each person found entitled to vote
and given a ballot shall be entered on each of the poll books by
the Clerks having charge thereof in regular succession under
the proper heading; but if the vote of any person whose name
has been entered on the poll books shall be afterwards re-
jected by the Judges, and his ballot not put in a ballot box,
the Clerks shall thereupon draw a line through his name and
number.

Immediately after the closing of the polls, the Judges of
Election shall proceed to count the ballots in the four boxes in
order, and the counting thereof shall not be adjourned or post-
poned until it shall have been fully completed, the returns an-
nounced publicly and the written returns hereinafter provided
for fully completed, and signed by the Judges and Clerks of
Election. No ballot shall be counted for Mayor whereon the
voter has made a cross (X) mark opposite the name of more
than one candidate for Mayor, and the same shall be true in
respect to the counting the votes for Councilman for each of
the several wards. No ballot in box No. 1 shall be counted, for
any candidate whatsoever if it be marked for any candidate
for whom a first ward voter shall not be entitled to vote, and
the same rule shall apply to such of the other boxes. In
counting the ballots the Judges of Election shall be governed
by the manifest intent of the voter where the same can be
ascertained, and a cross (X) mark protruding slightly beyond
any square in which the same should be made shall not be
sufficient cause to reject any ballot. Any ballot which shall
have upon it any mark other than a cross (X) mark, which in
the opinion of the Judges shall appear to have been placed
thereon for the purpose of distinguishing said ballot from
others, shall be rejected by them and not counted.

After the Election Officials shall have counted the ballots,
and shall have compared the poll books with the number of
ballots, and found them to be correct, they shall make duplicate
statements or returns of the result of the canvass of said votes,
each of which statements or returns shall contain a caption
showing the date on which said election was held and the hours
thereof, and showing the number of votes given to each candi-
date designating the office for which they were given. In case
any proposition other than the election of officials shall be