Manner of counting the votes.
Section 13
SEC. 13. Manner of counting the votes. — The ballots contained in the ballot box for voters fifteen years of age and under eighteen shall be counted ahead of the ballot box containing the ballots of voters eighteen years and above. The counting of votes shall be made in the following manner: The committee shall form separate piles of two hundred ballot fully extended which shall be held together with rubber bands. The Chairman of Committee shall take the ballots of the first file one by one and read the votes in the order in which they appear thereon, assuming such a position as would unable all or at least a majority of the observers to read such votes. The other member of the committee shall record on the proper tally sheet the affirmative and negative votes as they are read. Each vote shall be recorded by a vertical line except every fifth vote which shall be recorded by a diagonal line crossing the previous four vertical lines. The Third member of the committee shall watch the preparation of the tally sheet. After all the votes casts by those fifteen years of age and under eighteen have been counted, the committee shall sum up the totals recorded for affirmative and negative votes and the aggregate sum shall be recorded on the tally sheet. The same procedure prescribed in the preceding paragraph shall be followed in the of the case of the votes cast by those who are eighteen years of age and above.