70                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 38

BEFORE ELECTION DAY, HE DELIVERS IN PERSON A
WRITTEN APPLICATION TO THE BOARD OF HIS COUNTY
OR BALTIMORE CITY, AS THE CASE MAY BE, FOR A BAL-
LOT, BALLOT ENVELOPE AND INSTRUCTIONS, AND
MARKS THE BALLOT, EXECUTES THE OATH ON THE
BALLOT ENVELOPE BEFORE ANY MEMBER OF THE
BOARD, WHO SHALL TAKE THE OATH AND WITNESS THE
SAME, AND LEAVES SAID BALLOT ENVELOPE, WITH THE
BALLOT ENCLOSED AND SEALED THEREIN, WITH THE
BOARD AT ITS REGULAR OFFICE. THEREAFTER THE
BOARD SHALL FOLLOW THE SAME PROCEDURE AS TO
BALLOT ENVELOPE AND BALLOTS CAST BY ANY SUCH
HONORABLY DISCHARGED ABSENTEE RESIDENT, AS IS
SET FORTH IN THE OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS SUB-
TITLE FOR BALLOT ENVELOPES AND BALLOTS CAST BY
OTHER ABSENTEE RESIDENTS.

258. Contests and Appeals. Contests concerning registration, vot-
ing or the validity of any ballot under this sub-title shall be decided
by the board having jurisdiction of the matter. No registration
shall be denied and no ballot rejected except by the unanimous vote
of said board. Any candidate or absentee resident aggrieved by any
decision or action of such board shall have the right of appeal to
the circuit court for the county or to the Superior Court of Balti-
more City, as the case may be, to review such decision or action, and
jurisdiction to hear and determine such appeals is hereby conferred
upon said courts. Such appeals shall be taken by way of petition
filed with the appropriate court within ten days from the date of the
completion of the official canvass by any board of all the votes cast
at any election and shall be heard de novo and without a jury by said
court as soon as possible. There shall be a further right of appeal
to the Court of Appeals [, provided such appeal shall be taken within
five days from the date of the decision of the lower Court complained
of, and all such appeals shall be heard and decided on the original
papers, including a typewritten transcript of the testimony taken
in such cases, by the Court of Appeals, as soon as possible after the
same have been transmitted to said Court. Said original papers,
including the testimony shall be transmitted to the Court of Appeals
within ten (10) days from the taking of the appeal^-.

270.

(D) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.—IT SHALL BE
THE DUTY OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELEC-
TIONS TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION REGARDING THE
SECURING AND MAILING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS AS MUCH
AS POSSIBLE AMONG THE ABSENTEE RESIDENTS OF BAL-
TIMORE, MARYLAND, AND, TO THIS END, IT IS AUTHOR-
IZED TO SEEK THE COOPERATION BOTH OF THE PUB-
LISHERS OF NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS,
RADIO STATIONS AND OTHER AGENCIES CUSTOMARILY
USED IN THE DISSEMINATION OF NEWS OR INFORMA-
TION, AND ALSO OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, OR
OF ANY OTHER FEDERAL OFFICE OR AGENCY.

276. Honorably Discharged Absentee. No honorably discharged
absentee resident, referred to in sub-section £(d)] (b) of Section
268 of this sub-title, who has been discharged more than one month