HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1695

ballots containing at least as many ballots as there are voters
shown by the last preceding registration in said precinct, and
shall cause such package to be sealed and clearly marked on
the outside of its wrapper with the name of the precinct or
polling place for which it is intended and the number of ballots
enclosed. The said package of ballots shall be delivered to
the judges of elections with the ballot boxes, poll books, blanks
and stationery, as provided in Section 103 of this Article.
The Supervisors of Elections shall also cause to be printed
a surplus number of ballots equal to ten per centum
of the total number of voters as shown by the regis-
try books in those precincts of any county, congressional,
legislative or councilmanic or other district in which paper
ballots shall be used, and said surplus ballots in the counties
shall be retained by the Supervisors of Elections and in Bal-
timore City, shall be delivered to the Police Commissioner
of Baltimore City, and it shall be the duty of said Supervisors
of Elections and the said Police Commissioner to have said
surplus ballots on the day of election in their charge, or that
of an officer designated by them, and to supply them to any
judges of elections who shall then make requisition therefor
in writing, stating their first supply of ballots has been ex-
hausted or that for any cause the additional ballots are
needed. Said Police Commissioner shall receipt for all sur-
plus ballots delivered to him and keep a record of all such
surplus ballots delivered by him to the judges of election,
and on the day after election he shall return all ballots not
so delivered to the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Bal-
timore City. All surplus ballots shall be destroyed within
ten days after the day of election unless the destruction there-
of be stayed by an order of Court pending a contest. The
several Boards of Supervisors shall keep a record of the
number of all ballots printed in their respective counties
or City, and shall preserve the same for at least six months
after the election for which it was made.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 980.
(House Bill 490)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 89
and 90 of Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Charles County", sub-title