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places within each election district of said County; provided,
however, that if for any reason said notice shall not be given,
or not given in the manner prescribed by law, such failure of
publication of said notice shall not affect the validity of this
Act nor operate to prevent its taking effect.

If the said question is submitted at a regular election held
in said Washington County, the laws of this State affecting
general elections in said County shall apply in all particulars
not herein otherwise provided for. If, however, the Super-
visors of Elections for Washington County shall order a spe-
cial election, then they shall deliver to the proper officers all
registration books and ballot boxes for use at the said special
election in the manner as now provided for use at general
elections held in this State.

The Board of Supervisors of Elections for said Washington
County shall, not later than twenty (20) days prior to the date
of the said special election select and appoint four judges and
two clerks for each election precinct in said County to serve at
said special election and shall duly notify them of their selec-
tion and appointment. Said judges and clerks shall qualify in
the same manner as now prescribed by law for the qualification
of judges and clerks at any general election held in this State
before the date of said special election: two judges and one
clerk in each of the said election precincts shall be selected and
appointed by the Supervisors of Elections so as to bona fide
represent each of the opposing sides upon the question hereby
submitted; and in the selection and appointment of such judges
and clerks the supervisors of elections aforesaid, if requested,
shall make the same from a list of eight names from each of
said election precincts as presented to them by an organiza-
tion or general committee which may be managing the inter-
ests of those in favor of and those opposed to the proposition
to be submitted at the said special election. Said special elec-
tion shall be held and conducted at the same place and in the
same manner as other elections are held and conducted, and
the necessary expenses of the same shall be paid for by Wash-
ington County in the same manner as provided for in the case
of a general election held in said County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the said question shall
be submitted at the general election as provided for in Section
1 of this Act, then the Supervisors of Elections for Washing-
ton County shall have printed upon the ballots in a separate
column after the names of candidates the following proposi-