HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1319

The Election Supervisors shall provide one or more glass
ballot boxes, similar to those used in State elections of the
State of Maryland, which shall be used at all elections held
hereunder, and they shall also provide booths at the ratio of
one for each 100 registered voters, or fractional part thereof.
Any person offering to vote whose name shall appear upon the
registration books and who shall establish his identity to the
satisfaction of the Judges, shall be furnished by one of the
Judges with an official ballot having the initials of said Judge
thereon, and he shall then repair to one of the booths or com-
partments and therein mark his ballot with a pencil making a
cross (X) mark in the square opposite the name of each can-
didate for whom he may desire to vote. He shall then fold
the ballot without displaying the marks thereon and return it
to one of the Judges of Election, who shall in his presence de-
posit it in the ballot box, and his name shall be checked by the
Judges on the registration books in a space provided for that
purpose. Any voter who shall spoil a ballot so that he cannot
vote it may return said ballot to the Judge and receive another
in its stead, and he shall in the same way be entitled to a third
ballot, but no more; said spoiled ballots shall be immediately
cancelled by the Judges by endorsing thereon the word
"Spoiled. " No voter shall be allowed more than seven minutes
within which to vote. Each Clerk of Election shall keep a poll
book containing 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 succes-
sion under the proper heading; but if the vote of any person
whose name has been entered on the poll books shall be after-
wards rejected by the Judges, or his ballot not put in a bal-
lot 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, and the counting
thereof shall not be adjourned or postponed until it shall have
been fully completed, the returns announced 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 Commissioners whereon the voter has made a
cross (X) mark opposite the name of more than five candidates.
In counting the ballots the Judges of Election shall be gov-
erned by the manifest intent of the voter where the same can
be ascertained, and a cross (X) mark protruding slightly be-
yond 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