672              '          LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 252

possession of the Town Clerk at least four days before election
day, and a correct list of the names of the candidates thereon
with the designation of the offices for which the persons named
thereon are candidates shall be furnished on demand by the
Town Clerk to the candidates or their authorized agents. If
any mistake be discovered, it shall be the duty of said Town
Clerk to correct the same without delay, and if said Town
Clerk shall decline or refuse to make correction, then upon the
sworn petition of any qualified voter who would have the right
to vote for such candidate at the approaching election, the Cir-
cuit Court for Talbot County may, by order, require said Town
Clerk to correct such error or to show cause why such error
should not be corrected.

149. If the voter shall attempt to vote for more than one
candidate for the same office, or both for and against a propo-
sition submitted, the ballot shall not thereby be rendered to-
tally defective, but shall not be counted for or against the can-
didates or proposition so marked, and whenever the in-
tention of the voter can be arrived at the same may, by a ma-
jority vote, be counted, and no ballot having thereon any
mark or marks which, in the opinion of a majority of the
judges were intended as designating or distinguishing mark,
shall be counted. The judges of election, immediately after the
polls are closed on the day of election, shall count the ballots
cast as herein provided, and the clerks shall keep tally of same
on tally sheets provided by the supervisors of elections; when
all the ballots have been canvassed the election clerks shall
compare their tallies and shall ascertain the total number re-
ceived by each candidate and when they agree upon the num-
ber one of them shall announce in a loud voice to the judges
the aggregate number of votes received by each candidate.
The chief judge shall then proclaim in a loud voice the total
number of votes received by each person voted for, and the
office for which he is designated and the number of votes for
and the number of votes against any proposition which shall
have been submitted to the vote of the people. The judges
shall make duplicate statements or returns of the result of the
canvass, each of which shall, if possible, be made upon a single
sheet of paper and shall contain a caption stating the town,
county, state and the day on which said statement shall be
made and the time of opening and closing the polls, and show-
ing the whole number of votes given for each person, desig-
nating the office for which they were given. Such statements