HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1501

(b) The Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City and of
the several counties of the State are hereby given jurisdiction
and power to hear and determine said appeals; to review and
correct the action of the Judges of Election in their respective
jurisdiction and to recanvass, recount and certify said result
of said primary election. And for all the purposes of said
review, recount, recanvass, etc., the said Supervisors of Elec-
tion shall act and be judges of election for counting said ballots
acting as such in the premises within their respective geo-
graphical jurisdictions.

(c) Upon the filing of said petition as aforesaid accompanied
by affidavits made by officers of election or by watchers, chal-
lengers or by other persons setting forth acts of fraud, mistake,
error or irregularity in making said count or returns by the
Judges of Election or setting forth that some of the returns
and tally-sheets of said primary election show on their faces
ambiguity, error, or fraud, mistake or miscalculation by the
judges of election, or if no such affidavits are filed with said
petition and the petitioner in lieu of such affidavits offers to
give and does give bond, in amount to be fixed in each instance
and approved by a judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
City or of the Circuit Court for the county as the case may be,
to pay the reasonable costs of said appeal, recount, review and
recanvass. The supervisors shall in either event produce be-
fore them the ballot boxes, returns, tally-sheets and parapher-
nalia of said election, and/or ascertain, in the manner pro-
vided by Section 90 of this Article, the votes recorded upon
the voting machines, and shall proceed forthwith in a summary
way without answer, pleading or technicality and without re-
quiring any evidence to be taken or proof submitted, to review
the actions of the Judges of Elections and recount the ballots
in those precincts named in said petition in said county, city,
legislative district, ward or other political division thereof,
as the case may be, in which paper ballots are used.

(d) Said review, recount and recanvass shall be had with
all possible expedition and dispatch and in preference to all
other business under such mode of procedure as the Supervisors
of Elections shall prescribe by means of tellers appointed by
them on the recommendation of and with equal representa-
tion to the opposing candidates. The said supervisors shall pass
upon and decide whether any ballot contested by the teller for
either side shall be rejected or counted. They shall sit for
said purpose in the office of the Supervisors of Elections of
Baltimore City or of the Circuit Court for the county as the
case may be every day, including Saturdays, at least from nine
o'clock A. M. to five o'clock P. M., with one hour's intermission
for lunch until said review, recount and recanvass is completed.