HERBERT E, O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 395

and they shall also provide booths in each precinct at the
ratio of one for each 400 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 fur-
nished by one of the Judges with an official ballot for the
ward in which he lives, 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) or a check (\/) mark in the square opposite the
name of each candidate for whom he may desire to vote. He
shall then fold the ballot without displaying the marks there-
on and return it to one of the Judges of Election, who shall
in his presence deposit it in the ballot box, and his name
shall be checked by the Judges on the registration books or
a card index 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 min-
utes within which to vote. Each Clerk of Election shall keep
a poll book containing a column headed "Number", and an-
other 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 succession under the proper heading; but if the
vote of any person whose name has been Entered on the poll
books shall be afterwards rejected by the Judges, and his
ballot not put in a ballot box, the Clerks shall thereupon
draw a line through his name and number.

Immediately after the closing of the polls, the Judges
of Elections shall proceed to count the ballots for said pre-
cinct 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 herein-
after provided for fully completed, and signed by the Judges
and Clerks of Election. No ballot shall be counted for Mayor
whereon the voter has made a cross (X) mark or a check (V)
mark opposite the name of more than one candidate for Mayor,
and the same shall be true in respect to the counting the
votes for Councilman for each of the several wards. 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 or a check (V)
mark protruding slightly beyond any square in which the