SPIRO T. AGNEW, Governor                        873

the package of unused ballots and the registers or the binder con-
taining the registration cards, and one copy of the statement of votes
cast and tally sheet shall deliver them to the board and take a receipt
therefor. The judges having possession of the other statements and
tallies shall deliver them before 12 o'clock noon of the day following
the election to the respective officers to whom they are addressed, as
aforesaid; and when so delivered, each of the said judges shall take
a receipt therefor. No judge shall receive pay for his services unless
he produces the receipt herein provided for. The members of each
board shall be present at their respective offices on the days named
for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.

(p) The board upon receiving ballot boxes and the keys thereof,
shall note the condition of the seal or stamp on each box, the number
thereof, 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 deliv-
ered the box. They shall be put by the board 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, the board shall
destroy, or cause to be destroyed, said ballots, 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.

(q) The board shall produce any such ballots in regard to which
testimony may be proposed to be taken before a judge taking exam-
inations in a contested election. The board shall furnish copies of
the same only on the order of a judge thereof and then, in pursuance
of the terms and conditions of said order and subject to its restric-
tions. The board shall retain such ballots in possession and custody
until such ballots are required by the order of the court having juris-
diction in the case, to be delivered to the court, or by order of the
Senate or House of Delegates, or by order of the City Council of
Baltimore, in whichever the seat is contested.

GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR VOTING

15-1. Policing.

Each of the judges has the authority to keep the peace and to cause
any person to be arrested for any breach of the peace, or for any
breach of the election laws, or any interference with the progress of
an election, the canvass of the ballots or the ascertainment and tran-
scription of the votes recorded on the voting machines. It shall be
the duty of all officers of the law present to obey the order of any
judge, and an officer making an arrest by the direction of any judge
shall be protected in so doing fully as if a warrant had been issued to
him to make such arrest.

15-2. Hours for voting.

The polling places throughout the State shall be opened by the
judges at 7:00 o'clock A.M. on the day of election, and the polling
places shall remain open until 7:00 8:00 o'clock P.M. on the same
day, when the polling places shall be closed.