734                              Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 352

report upon contested elections affected by the use of such machine.
If within two days after the results of the canvass are declared
official, the board shall receive notice in writing of any contest over
the result of said election, then such board, within five days from
the receipt of such notice and in the presence of the principals
involved in any such contest or their authorized representatives, shall
proceed to inspect and examine the voting machines containing the
votes cast for such contested office, and shall make a record of the
votes for such office upon said machines. Such record shall be received
as evidence as fully as if proved by the oral testimony of the persons
who shall sign the same, or by the production of said voting machines
in court or before said board. After such inspection, examination,
and recording of the results thereof, and after permission to release
the voting machines has been granted by the State Administrative
Board of Election Laws, the said voting machines shall be released
and made available for use in any succeeding election.

18-2.

(b) In conformity with the statements and determinations made
as aforesaid by the Board of State Canvassers, or the several boards
of canvassers, the Governor shall issue commissions to the different
persons elected, as now provided by the Constitution and laws of
this State.

23-1.

(a)  Whenever a proposed Constitution or constitutional amend-
ment or other question is to be submitted for popular approval to
the voters of the State or local subdivisions thereof, the [Secretary
of State] State Administrative Board of Election Laws shall certify
the same to the boards on or before the fourth Monday in the month
of July. Thereupon the board shall include the same in the publica-
tion provided for in Section 8-5 of this article. If questions of local
concern are to be submitted for approval to the vote of the people
of a county or a municipality the same shall be certified to the
boards within said period by the county commissioners, county
councils or treasurer of the City of Baltimore, as the case may foe,
and shall be advertised as herein provided in the case of nominees
for county or city offices.

26-4.

(b)  If any committee, including a political club, directly or indi-
rectly, expends fifty-one dollars ($51.00) or more to aid or oppose
the nomination or election of any candidate, regardless of the pur-
pose for which the committee is formed, the treasurer of the com-
mittee, or in the case of a political club an officer thereof, shall
report, on the form prescribed in Section 26-12 of this article, a
statement of contributions and expenditures to the treasurer ap-
pointed by the candidate being so aided, which statement shall be
included in, or attached to, the statement of contributions and expen-
ditures reported by the treasurer of the candidate as provided in
Sections 26-11 and 26-12 of this article, however, a political club
need only report that amount which is actually contributed to a
candidate. The provisions of this subsection shall apply to any com-
mittees located outside of the State of Maryland with respect to
any expenditures of funds within the State of Maryland.