1899_public laws_508_29
CHAPTER 507 An act to regulate elections. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
That the county board of elections, or upon their failure, the registrar and judges of election, shall provide for each election precinct in their respective counties ballot boxes for each class of officers to be voted for in which to deposit the ballots for such officers respctively. Each of said boxes shall have an open- ing through the lid of sufficient size to admit a single folded ballot and no more. And each box shall be labeled in plain roman  letters designating the officers voted for. That the said ballot boxes shall be kept by the registrar and judges of election for the use of the several precincts respectively; and the said registrar and judges of election before voting begins shall carefully examine the ballot boxes and see that there is nothing in them.