1096 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 532
powered to purchase, rent, lease, or otherwise acquire such
number of voting machines as may be required to equip
with voting machines any or all of the polling places in
any of the following named election districts, that is to
say, Wheaton District, and Bethesda District such voting
machines to be acquired in such manner and on such
terms as may be agreed upon by and between the Board of
Supervisors of Election of Montgomery County and the
County Commissioners of said County.
224C. The form and arrangement of ballot labels to be
used on said voting machines in any or all of the polling
places in the Wheaton and Bethesda election districts of
Montgomery County shall be in accordance with Section
63 of Article 33 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924, title "Elec-
tions", or as may herein or be hereafter prescribed by
law, except that the titles of offices shall be arranged
horizontally or vertically, and the names of the candidates
of each party or principle shall be arranged under or
opposite the proper title, in a horizontal or vertical row
for each party or principle; and except that said ballot
labels shall be printed in black ink on clear white mate-
rial of such size and arrangement as to suit the construc-
tion of such voting machines and further that the desig-
nation of the party or principle which each candidate rep-
resents shall appear just above the name of each such
candidate and provided further that the ballot labels shall
be so arranged that exact uniformity, so far as practicable,
will prevail as to size and face of printing of all candi-
dates' names and party designations. The ballot labels for
questions, including Constitutional Amendments, Refer-
enda and other propositions shall be placed on the ma-
chine in the space provided for that purpose and may con-
tain a condensed statement of each proposition to be voted
on, accompanied by the words "Yes" and "No". The
word "Yes" shall be interpreted as meaning a vote for a
constitutional amendment or statute referred, or other
proposition, and the word "No" as a vote against a con-
stitutional amendment or statute referred, or other propo-
sition. The titles of the offices on the ballot labels shall
be printed in type as large as the space for such office
will reasonably permit; there shall be printed below the
office title the words "Vote for One, " "Vote for Two, " in
accordance with the provisions of Section 63 of Article
33 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, Edition of 1924, title "Elections", or such num-
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