HERBERT B. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1597

the opening hour, the said registries of voters and a suffi-
cient number of the said official ballots, not less, however,
than twice the number of registered voters at each polling
place or ward, and one of such ballots shall be handed by
the judges of election to the voters as they shall apply for
them for the purpose of voting and shall be accepted by the
judges or counted in canvassing the vote provided that
nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent candidates for
the various offices to have sample ballots, to be provided
for at their own expense, for instructing the voters. After
each name on said ballot and to the right thereof, shall be
a square upon which the voter shall make a cross-mark
to indicate the candidate of his choice. If any voter cannot
read or write, or is disabled by reason of any physical
infirmity, he may ask one of the judges of election to mark
his ballot as he desires. When a voter offers to vote the
judges shall ascertain by reference if his name is on the
registry of voters.

In every election, whether such election be the regular
election or any special election, the polls shall be opened at
7 A. M. and closed at 5 P. M. In all elections to ascertain
the sense of the qualified voters of the town as to the pas-
sage of any ordinance or ordinances the election shall be
held by wards and all the polls shall be opened at 7 A. M«
and closed at 5 P. M., on the day appointed for such election,

52. Within the 30 days next preceding any primary or
any special election, held under this Article, the Supervisor
of Elections shall, with disregard as to political faith, select,
submit and recommend to the Commissioners for appoint-
ment, the names of two persons for judges of election, and
the names of two persons for clerks of election, and within
the 20 days next preceding any primary election or any
special election held under this Article, the Commissioners
shall appoint two clerks and two judges of election in each
ward in which such election is to be held, who shall serve
as such at said primary election and at the general election
to follow in the wards for which they are respectively ap-
pointed, one of said judges shall also be designated, at the
time of appointment, as return judge. Provided in any
ward haying over seven hundred registered voters, the
registration books may be divided and duplicate judges and
clerks of election appointed, in the discretion of the Com-
missioners. At the time of the appointment of the judges
and clerks of election, the Commissioners shall also name
a polling place in each ward. The Supervisor of Elections
shall publish in one or more newspapers published in Cam-
bridge the names of the judges and clerks of election, the
polling place in each ward and the date and object of the