1242                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 739

ballots, registers, statements of votes cast and tally-sheets to the
proper officers in their respective counties, and shall take similar
receipts for the same.

(b)  Baltimore City. Thereupon, in those precincts of Baltimore
City in which paper ballots shall be used, one of the judges shall
take charge of the ballot-box and its contents so enclosed. Another
judge representing the opposite political party, shall receive and
hold the key thereof, and the package of unused ballots sealed up
by said judges, as required by Section 112. The two judges who do
not have charge of the ballot-box or key shall take into their posses-
sion the registers or the binder containing the registration cards
for the precinct, and each of said judges shall take one of the state-
ments of the votes cast (elsewhere in this Article called return
sheets), sealed up in its envelope as aforesaid. Each of the clerks
shall take one of the tally-sheets sealed up in an envelope as afore-
said, and the meeting of said judges and clerks shall then be dissolved.
Before 12 o'clock noon of the day after such election in such pre-
cincts, the judge having possession of the ballot-box shall deliver
the same, with the contents aforesaid, to the Board of Supervisors
of Elections with the seal unbroken, and shall take a receipt therefor.
Within the same period of time the judges having possession of the
key, the package of unused ballots and the registers or the binder
containing the registration cards for the precinct shall deliver the
same to the said Board of Supervisors and take a receipt therefor.
The two judges and clerks of election having possession of the
statements and tallies within the same time shall deliver them to the
respective officers to whom they are addressed, as aforesaid; and
when so delivered, each of said judges and clerks shall take a
receipt therefor. No judge or clerk shall receive pay for his services
unless he produces the receipt herein provided for.

(c)  Duty of Supervisors. It shall be the duty of the Supervisors
of Elections in the respective counties and in said City to attend at
their respective offices on the days named for the purpose of carry-
ing out the provisions of this section. The officers to whom the
statements and tallies are so delivered shall securely keep the same
with the seals unbroken.

118. Custody of Voting Materials. 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 touching the same, in a book to be kept by them, together
with the name of the officer who delivered the box. They shall de-
liver all the ballot-boxes so sealed, as aforesaid, to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for their respective counties, or to the Police Com-
missioner of Baltimore City, as the case may be, who shall put them
in a secure place to which the public in no case shall have access.
Said boxes and their contents shall be safely kept 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 investigation then
pending, said Board of Supervisors shall destroy, or cause to be
destroyed, said ballots and poll books, and all of the said tallies and
statements of returns; and the Board shall record in the same book
a certificate of the fact of destruction.