Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                     1241

or the Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be; and
one shall be directed to the County Commissioners, County Council,
or to the Mayor of the City of Baltimore, as the case may be. Each
set of tallies shall also be signed by the election clerks and the judges
of election, and each shall be enclosed in an envelope securely signed
and sealed as aforesaid, one of which shall be addressed to the Board
of Supervisors of Elections and the other to the Register of Wills. If
any judge or clerk shall decline to sign said set of tallies, or either of
them, he shall state his reason therefor, in writing, and a copy
thereof, signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each tally sheet.
On the outside of every envelope shall be endorsed the statement
that it contains the votes cast or the tallies, and for what precinct,
ward, city or county.

(d) Voting Machines. The provisions of this section as to the
return of tallies shall not apply to those precincts in which voting
machines shall be used, but one of the four return sheets for which
provision is made by Section 131 of this Article shall be addressed
to the Board of Supervisors of Elections and one of said return
sheets to the Register of Wills.

116.   Packing Voting Materials for Return. (a) Spoiled and De-
fective Ballots. The "Spoiled" and "Not voted" ballots, as defined
in Section 110, shall be enclosed in a package to themselves and
endorsed "Spoiled and not voted"; the "Rejected" and "Defective"
ballots, as defined in said section and Section 113, shall be enclosed
in a package to themselves and endorsed "Rejected and defective".
The poll-books and the ballots cast and counted, as well as the two
before-mentioned packages of "Spoiled", "Not voted", "Rejected" and
"Defective" ballots, shall be placed in the ballot-box.

(b) Sealing Ballot-Box. The ballot-box shall then be locked and
the key removed, whereupon the judges of election shall all write
their names upon a strip of paper of sufficient length for the pur-
poses specified in this section. Said strip of paper shall then be
pasted over the keyhole of said ballot-box and over the slit in the
lid, in such manner that the signatures shall extend across the
place of the opening of the lid, and so that when the box is opened
it will tear the paper and destroy the signatures, and so that when
the key is inserted in the keyhole it will tear the paper so pasted
over the keyhole. Such paper shall be securely fastened on the box
with sealing wax or some other adhesive material.

117.  Return of Voting Materials to Board. (a) Counties. In those
precincts of the counties in which paper ballots shall be used, after
the proceedings set forth in the preceding section, in each precinct,
one of the judges, who is also an officer of registration, who shall
he designated beforehand by the Supervisors of Elections, shall take
charge of the ballot-box and its contents so enclosed. The other
judge, who is also an officer of registration, shall receive and hold
the key thereof, and the package of unused ballots sealed up by
said judges. Each of said judges shall 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 also one of the tally-
sheets, sealed up in an envelope as aforesaid,. 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 ballot-boxes, keys, packages of unused