1522 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

(d) In those precincts of the counties in which voting ma-
chines shall be used, after the proceedings set forth in the
preceding section in each precinct, the judges who are also
officers of registration, who shall be designated beforehand by
the Supervisors of Elections, shall each take into his possession
one of the registers, and also one of the statements of the votes
cast, sealed up in its envelope as aforesaid, and the meeting
of the judges and clerks shall then be dissolved; before 12
o'clock noon of the second day after said election, the two
judges so having custody thereof shall deliver said registers
and statements of votes cast to the proper officers in their re-
spective counties, as hereinbefore prescribed for the City of
Baltimore, and shall take similar receipts for the same.

It shall be the duty of the Supervisors of Elections in the
several counties and in said City to attend at their respective
offices on the days named for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this section.

79. The Board of Supervisors of Elections, upon receiving
a ballot box and the key thereof, shall note the condition of the
seal or stamp on each box, and make an entry of the facts touch-
ing the same, in a book to be kept by them, together with the
name of the officer who delivered the box. They shall deliver all
the ballot boxes so sealed, as aforesaid, to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for their respective counties, or to the Police
Commissioner of Baltimore City, as the case may be, who shall
put them in a secure place to which the public shall in no case
have access, and shall safely keep them for the space of four
months from the date of such delivery, at which time, unless
previously notified to produce the same to be used in evidence
in some contested election or judicial or legislative investiga-
tion then pending, said Board of Supervisors shall destroy, or
cause to be destroyed said ballots and poll books, also all of
the said tallies and statements or returns, and shall record in
the same book a certificate of the fact.

80. The Boards of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City
and of the respective counties shall have power to use voting
machines in all elections, general, primary and special, in ac-
cordance with the provision of this Article and under such rules
and regulations as said Boards may deem advisable or neces-
sary. The said Boards, with the approval of, and upon such
terms as may be agreed to by, the County Commissioners of
their respective counties or the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore City, as the case may be, may purchase, rent, lease or
otherwise acquire such number of voting machines as may be
required to equip any or all of the polling places in said city
or county, as the case may be, and may determine which pre-