1518 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

package and returned to the ballot-box as hereinafter directed.
No vote shall be counted for any candidate opposite whose
name no cross-mark shall be placed, and no ballot shall be
rejected solely because any part or portion of the cross-mark
is within the square or because the voter has marked more
names than there are persons to be elected to an office, but such
ballots shall not be counted for any candidate in the group
of names so marked. They shall open the ballots, and all of
them shall be canvassed separately by one of the judges sit-
ting between two other judges, which judge shall call out each
name and the office for which it is designated and the other
judges looking at the ballot at the same time, and the clerks
making tally of the same. When all the ballots have been can-
vassed in this manner, the election clerks shall compare their
tallies together and ascertain the total number of votes re-
ceived by each candidate, and when they agree upon the num-
bers, one of them shall announce in a loud voice to the judges
the aggregate number of votes received by each candidate.
If requested by any watcher or challenger present at any can-
vass it shall be the duty of the judges, and each of them, to ex-
hibit to such watcher or challenger any ballot cast, fully
opened or in such condition and manner that he may fully
read and examine the same, but the judges shall not allow any
ballot to be taken from their hands. As the ballots are counted
they shall be strung upon a strong twine.

74. When the canvass of the ballots shall have been com-
pleted, and the clerks shall have announced to the judges the
total number of votes received by each candidate, each of the
judges of election, in turn, shall then proclaim in a loud voice
the total number of votes received by each person voted for in
such precinct and the office for which he is designated, and
the number of votes for and the number of votes against any
proposition which shall have been submitted to the vote of
the people; such proclamation shall be prima facie evidence of
the result of the canvass of such ballots. In the City of Balti-
more the judges shall, immediately after such proclamation,
deliver to a policeman on duty at the polling place a statement
subscribed with their names, which shall be sealed up and
forthwith conveyed by the said policeman to the office of the
Police Commissioner, whose duty it shall be to file and preserve
the same. Such statements shall contain the total number of
votes in the ballot-box and the number of votes found therein
for each and every candidate, and any person applying may
inspect the same.

75. The judges shall mke duplicate statements or returns
of the result of the canvass, each of which shall, if possible, be
made upon a single sheet of paper and shall contain a caption