Sec. 9-286. Ballot box sealing stamp.

      Sec. 9-286. Ballot box sealing stamp. The Secretary of the State shall, at the time when he distributes the official ballots for any regular election, furnish to each municipal clerk to whom ballots are so distributed one adhesive ballot box sealing stamp for each ballot box to be used in such election, which stamp shall be of cloth-lined paper and shall not be less than five and one-fourth inches in width by thirty-two inches in length, upon the face of which shall be printed a facsimile of the seal of the state and the date of the election. The clerk of each municipality in which an election is to be held shall notify the Secretary of the State, not less than ten days before the date of such election, of the number of ballot boxes to be used in such municipality in such election.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1073; 1953, S. 762d.)