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§§ 522-526 facts as they appear to such supervisors may become known, which report shall remain among the files of the clerk of the said district court.

To have certain privileges. s. 13, c. 40, 1885.

§ 522 And to better enable the supervisors of election to discharge their duties, they are authorized and directed on the day of such election to take, occupy and remain in such position from time to time during such election, whether before or behind the ballot-boxes, as will in their judgment best enable them to see each person offering to vote, and as will best conduce to their scrutinizing the manner in which the voting is being done; and at the close of the polls for the reception of the votes they are required to place themselves in such position in relation to the ballot-boxes for the purpose of engaging in the work of assisting in the canvass of the ballots as will enable them to fully perform their duties in respect to such canvass provided for, and shall there remain until every duty in respect to such canvass, certificates and returns has been wholly completed.

Penalty for illegal voting. s. 14, c. 40, 1885.

§ 523. And if any person shall interfere with the clerks judges or supervisors of election in the exercise and discharge of their duties, or shall interfere, hinder, molest, or threaten to molest any of such officers in the discharge of their duties, or shall cast any illegal vote at such election, they shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall upon conviction thereof be punished as provided in section 527.

Ballots to be numbered. s. 15, c. 40, 1885.

§ 524. The ballots at such election shall be folded by the voters and delivered to one of the judges of election, and if the judges and supervisors of election or a majority of them be satisfied the person offering the vote is a legal voter, the clerks of election shall enter the name of the voter and his number under the proper heading in the poll-books, and the supervisors of election and also the judges of election shall thereupon endorse on the back of the ticket offered the number corresponding with the number of the voter on the poll-book, and shall immediately put the ticket into the ballot-box.

No adjournment or recess-Ballots, how preserved. s. 16, c. 40, 1885.

§ 525. After the opening of the polls no adjournment shall be had, nor shall any recess be taken until the votes cast at such election shall have been counted and the result publicly, announced. All the ballots counted by the judges and supervisors of election shall after being read be strung upon a strong thread or twine, in the order in which they have been read, and after such ballots have been all counted and so strung, the thread shall be tied in a knot, which knot shall be covered by wax, as directed by the supervisors of election, and thereupon it shall carefully be enveloped and sealed up by the judges of election in presence of the supervisors, and immediately placed in the ballot-box, together with the said poll-books, which ballot-boxes shall be carefully locked up or fastened and sealed by the judges of election in the presence of said supervisors before the same shall be delivered to them or either of them as provided in this act.

Return of poll-books. s. 17, c. 40, 1885.

§ 526. The judges of election shall after the canvass of the votes has been closed as provided by law, thereupon enclose and seal one of the poll-books and under cover direct the same to the register of deeds of said county to which said unorganized county is attached for judicial purposes, and the book thus sealed shall thereupon be delivered to the supervisor of election, and shall that way be conveyed by such supervisor to and delivered to the register of deeds at his office within three days after the closing of the polls; and the other poll-book enclosed in the ballot-