PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 715

heretofore made by any Supervisors of Elections of the sev-
eral counties of the State of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 125 of Article 33 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland of 1904, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as fol-
lows:

125. It shall be the duty of the Boards of Supervisors of
Elections of the several counties, to examine the boundaries
of the several election districts and election precincts in their
respective counties, from time to time, and whenever in their
judgment and discretion it shall be expedient for the conven-
ience of the voters, to subdivide any of said election districts or
election precincts, or to subdivide and change the boundaries
of any two or more precincts in any election district into three
or more precincts, they are hereby empowered and authorized
to make such subdivisions and to establish the boundaries of
such subdivisions in such way as to facilitate and expedite the
casting of their ballots by the voters thereof, either by the desig-
nation of an entirely new and different polling place or places,
or by providing for two or more separate polling places at or
near the former polling place or places; provided, however, that
no election district shall be subdivided into two or more pre-
cincts that has not an excess of six hundred voters; and no
precinct or group of precincts in any district shall be subdivided
unless one or more of said precincts so intended to be divided,
shall contain an excess of six hundred voters; and whenever,
in the exercise of the discretion conferred upon the several
B'oards of Supervisors of Elections of this section, they shall
subdivide any election district or election precinct or precincts,
they shall appoint officers of registration and judges and clerks
of election therefor, as in this article provided, who shall have
all the powers, perform all the duties, be subject to all the
responsibilities and be liable to all the penalties prescribed in
this article for officers of registration, judges and clerks of
election. All the members of the Boards of Supervisors for the
several counties whenever any such district, precinct or pre-
cincts is or are divided as herein provided, shall sign their
names to the books which contain the names copied from the
original books for such new district, or precinct in the hands of
such supervisors, and shall duly certify that said new books
contain all the names of the persons entitled to vote in such
newly established district or precinct, such said certificate shall
appear on the blank line next following the last name in each