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number as they deem advisable, payment for said machines to be made out
of money appropriated for that purpose.
See notes to sec. 108.

Baltimore City.
1933, ch. 228. 1937, ch. 94, sec. 224A.

263. The Board of Supervisors of Elections for Baltimore City is
hereby directed, in all future elections, to use the voting machines hereto-
fore purchased by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. A Board com-
posed of the members for the time being of the Board of Estimates of
Baltimore City and the members for the time being of the Board of Super-
visors of Elections of Baltimore City is hereby constituted, and is author-
ized, empowered and directed to purchase a sufficient number of voting ma-
chines for use in all polling places throughout the City of Baltimore at all
primary, general, special and other elections, held or to be held in said City
after the 1st day of January, 1938. The expenses incurred by said Board
and the cost of such voting machines shall, upon the requisition of said
Board, be audited by the Comptroller of Baltimore City, who shall pay
the saine by warrant drawn upon the proper officers of said City. Said
Board is authorized and empowered to determine by majority vote such
specifications supplementary to the specifications hereinafter set forth as
it may deem proper f or voting machines acquired, or to be acquired, by it,
and to select in its discretion the type and make of such voting machines,
and, in its discretion, to employ engineers or other skilled persons to advise
and aid said Board in the exercise of the powers and duties hereby conferred
upon it. Such voting machines, when purchased, shall be delivered to the
Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City, who shall have custody and con-
trol of the same for all the uses and purposes of this Act. The form and
arrangement of ballot labels shall be in accordance with the provisions as to
ballots contained in Section 99, (or as may herein and hereafter be pre-
scribed by law), except that the titles of offices shall be arranged horizontally
or vertically, and the names of the candidates of each party or principle
shall be arranged, under or opposite the proper title, in a horizontal or verti-
cal row or rows for each party or principle; and except that said ballot labels
shall be printed in black ink on clear white material of such size and ar-
rangement as to suit the construction of the machine and further that the
designation of the, party or principle which each candidate represents shall
appear just above the name of each such candidate and provided further that
the ballot labels shall be so arranged that exact uniformity (so far as prac-
ticable) will prevail as to size and face of printing of all candidates' names
and party designations. The ballot labels for questions, including Constitu-
tional Amendments, Referenda and other propositions shall be placed on
the machine in the space provided for that purpose and may contain a con-
densed statement of each proposition to. be voted on, accompanied by .the
words "For" and "Against" or by the words "Yes" and "'No." The word
"Yes" shall be interpreted as meaning a vote for a constitutional amend-
ment, statute or ordinance referred, or other proposition, and the word
"No" as a vote against a constitutional amendment, statute or ordinance
referred, or other proposition. The titles of the offices on the ballot labels
shall be printed in type as large as the space for such office will reasonably
permit; there shall be printed below the. office title the words "Vote for
One," "Vote for Two," in accordance with the provisions of Section 99, or
such number as the voter is lawfully entitled to vote for out of the whole
number of candidates nominated for such office.