HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1549

that the applicant is not an Absentee Resident it shall, as soon
as possible after receipt of the application, mail each Absentee
Resident a State Absentee Ballot, Ballot Envelope, Return
Envelope and the Instructions.

Not more than one State Absentee Ballot shall be mailed to
any one applicant unless the Board has reasonable grounds to
believe that the Absentee Ballot previously mailed has been
lost, destroyed or spoiled.

128A. Any absentee resident, as herein defined, who is eli-
gible to receive a ballot under the provisions of this sub-title
and who may be at home on leave during the period of 50
days preceding an election, may deliver in person a written
application to the Board of Supervisors of Elections of the
County or Baltimore City, as the case may be, in which he
resides, for an absentee ballot, and the Board shall deliver
such ballot together with a ballot envelope and instructions
to the applicant; such applicant shall thereupon mark said
ballot and execute the oath on the ballot envelope before any
member of the Board, who shall administer the oath and wit-
ness the same, whereupon the ballot envelope, With the ballot
enclosed and sealed therein shall be left with the Board at its
regular office. Thereafter the Board shall follow the same pro-
cedure as is set forth in this sub-title for ballot envelopes and
ballots cast by other Absentee Residents.

129. The several Boards shall cause to be printed an ade-
quate number of State Absentee Ballots, of the three kinds of
envelopes hereinafter described and of instructions. The words
"Absentee Ballot" shall be printed in large letters in a clear
space at. the top of each of said ballots. The designation of the
polling place shall be left blank on the back and outside of
said ballots and shall be filled in by the appropriate Board
before being sent to any registered Absentee Resident, and,
if the Absentee Resident is not registered, said blanks shall
be filled in by said Board when said Absentee Resident is
registered, as in this sub-title provided. One envelope shall
be known as the "Return Envelope" and shall be sufficiently
larger than the other envelope, which shall be known as the
"Ballot Envelope" and which is hereinafter described, to con-
veniently enclose and contain the Ballot Envelope. There shall
be printed or written across the left-hand face of the "Return
Envelope" the words "Return Envelope for the Election of
.......................... ", the blank space being filled in

with the date of said election, after which there shall be added
the words, "Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City", or
"Supervisors of Elections of.................. County" as

the case may be, and the address of their office, and below this
last phrase shall be printed in bold type the phrase, "Official