to persuade any person to vote for or against any particular candidate or party ticket.

Sec. 46. The board of inspectors of election shall preserve Inspectors to the unused ballots, together with the ballots which have been keep an account of all ballots. spciled, and shall deliver the same to the superintendent of police, or to his duly authorized messenger, taking his receipt therefor as above provided. A statement of the number of ballots used shall be enclosed with the ballots returned. Two ballot boxes shall be provided other than those provided for women voters, one for the reception of votes cast prior to two o'clock and one for votes cast after that hour. At two o'clock the clerk having charge of the poll list shall draw a line under the last name entered in the list, and shall write thereunder the words "two o'clock count commenced," which shall be signed by the chairman of the board and attested by such clerk. The number of votes shown by the poll list up to the hour of two o'clock shall be counted and compared with the number checked off in the election list of electors up to that time, and the number of voters having been ascertained and agreed upon, the result shall be certified in the poll book, in which proper blanks shall be printed for that purpose. The box then containing the ballots cast up to the hour of two o'clock shall then be opened, and before opening any ballot or ascertaining its contents, the number of ballots shall first be counted. If the number of ballots exceed the number of names on the poll books certified as aforesaid, the ballots shall then be replaced in the box, and one of the inspectors, with his back to the box, and without seeing it, shall draw out, without showing them, a number of ballots equal to the excess, and if during the counting of the ballots, or at the conclusion of the counting, an excess of ballots be discovered, all the ballots shall then be returned to the box, and after being thoroughly

mingled, the excess shall, in the manner directed above, be drawn out and the count corrected accordingly. In all cases where ballots have been drawn out, a minute of the number so drawn shall be returned with the unused ballots to the superintendent of police, and by him destroyed. If two or more separate ballots are found so folded together as to present the appearance of a single ballot, they must be laid aside until the count of the ballots is completed; then, if upon comparison of the count, the number and names of electors on the poll book, it appears that the two ballots thus folded together were cast by one elector, they must both be rejected and returned with other unused ballots. The ballots and poll list agreeing, or being made to agree, in this way, the board shall proceed to count the vote in the following manner: If a proposition shall have been submitted to the vote of the electors at that election, all the ballots shall be first separated into three piles, the first pile containing all the ballots in favor of such proposition, the second pile containing all the ballots against such proposition, and the third pile containing all the ballots not mentioning such proposition, or being neither for nor against such proposition. At least three of the inspectors shall then examine each pile, and see that the separation has been properly made, then the first pile of ballots shall be carefully counted and the result announced to the clerk, who shall tally the same, and so the second pile shall be counted, announced and tallied, and likewise the third pile necessary, whereupon the clerk shall announce to the inspectors the number of votes for and the number of votes against such proposition. The ballots for and against any proposition to be made shall always be canvassed, counted and tallied before the names of candidates for any office are canvassed, counted or tallied, and it shall be the legal duty of the inspectors and clerks of election to make a true count and correct return of all votes upon any such prop

osition, and any wilful failure or neglect of any inspector or clerk to do so shall be a misdemeanor, and punished accordingly. After completing the counting and tallying of the votes on any such proposition, those ballots which contain names which are marked alike, and commonly known as straight tickets, shall be placed together so that the several kinds shall be in separate piles or on separate files. At least two of the inspectors shall each examine the separate piles which are, or are supposed to be alike, and exclude from such piles any which have a name erased or in any manner shall be different from the others of such pile. One of said inspectors shall then take one pile of the kind of ballots which are marked alike, and count them in such subdivisions thereof as may be convenient for a prompt and careful determination of the result of such election, carefully examining each name and each of said ballots. Such inspector shall then pass the ballots aforesaid to another inspector, who shall then count them in the same manner and who shall then pass them to a third inspector, who shall also count them in the same manner. The third inspector shall then call the names of the persons marked or voted for by such ballots, and the offices for which they are designated, and the clerk shall tally the number of votes counted, and so called for each of such persons. When the said inspectors shall have gone through one of such piles of bellots known as straight tickets, and the clerk shall have tallied all the votes for each of such persons, they shall then take up the next pile of ballots containing the names which are marked alike, and shall count them in the same way, and shall call the names of the persons named in said ballots, and the offices for which they are designated, and the tally clerk shall tally the votes for each of said persons in the same manner as in the first instance. When the counting of each pile of ballots, which contain names which are marked alike, shall be completed, the

clerks shall compare their tallies together, and ascertain the total number of ballots of that kind so canvassed, and when they agree upon the number, one of them shall announce such number in a loud voice to the inspectors. The said inspectors having completed the canvass of the "straight tickets" shall then canvass the other kind of ballots which do not correspond, and those containing the names which are marked partly in one column and partly in another, usually called split tickets, and those from which the name of the person proper to be voted for on such ballot has been omitted or erased, usually called scratch tickets, said ballots shall be canvassed in such subdivisions as the inspectors may agree upon, and when all the ballots shall have been canvassed in this manner, and the tally clerks have made tally of the same, the clerks shall compare their tallies together, and ascertain the total number of votes received by each candidate, and when they agree upon the number one of them shall announce in a loud voice to the inspectors the number of votes received by each candidate on each kind of ballot containing his name, the number received by him on the split and scratch tickets and the total number of votes received by him. Each batch or subdivision of ballots agreed upon by the inspectors to be counted shall, as soon as counted, read and tallied, be strung upou a strong string or twine, or have rubber bands placed around them and each batch shall be thus disposed of before the commencement of the count of the next lot or batch. At the completion of the canvass made in this manner of the votes cast up to the hour of two o'clock, the ballots shall then be placed in the same box, together with the tally sheets, and the two covers securely locked, each of the keys being held by different inspectors, and the same shall remain securely locked until the completion of the canvass of the remainder of the votes cast at such election.

Sec. 47. As soon as the polls at said election shall have been finally closed the inspectors of election shall immediately, and at the close of the poll proceed to canvass the remainder of the votes cast and remaining uncounted. Such canvass shall not be adjourned or postponed until it shall have been fully completed, nor until the several statements hereinafter required to be made by the inspectors and clerks shall have been made out and signed by them. The said canvass of the ballots cast after two o'clock shall be made in the same manner as the canvass of the ballots cast before that hour as hereinbefore provided, the number of voters according to poll list and election list of electors having been ascertained, after careful comparison of the same, and counting the number therein entered. After such canvass shall have been completed and the number of votes received by each cardidate shall have been announced, then the ballot box containing the votes canvassed at the two o'clock count shall be opened and the tally sheets of that count taken therefrom, and the number of votes for each candidate shown by said tally sheets at the two o'clock count and the tally sheets of the counts made of votes received after two o'clock shall be added together by the tally clerk, and the tally clerks having compared their tallies together, and ascertained the total number of votes received by each candidate, at said election poll, when they have agreed upon the number, sball announce to the inspectors the total number of votes received by each candidate, and proclamation shall thereupon be made in a loud voice and repeated by one of said inspectors, of the total number of votes received by each of the persons voted for in said district for the office for which he is designated and the number of votes for and the number of votes against any proposition which shall have been submitted to a vote of the people. Such proclamation shall be prima facie evidence of the result of the canvass of such votes.

Canvass.