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if possessed of the qualifications herein prescribed, shall
be duly commissioned by the said board of supervisors.

"158. Not less than six days prior to the date fixed for
any primary election, the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions shall appoint for each polling place at such primary
election, primary election inspectors. Such primary
election inspectors shall be appointed in the same manner
in which judges and clerks of election of the political
party holding said primary election are appointed, and
shall possess the qualifications prescribed by law for such
judge or clerk.

A list of persons so appointed primary election inspec-
tors, with their residences, shall be hung up in some
public and conspicuous place in the office of the Board of
Supervisors of Electrons, and shall be kept so hanging
from the date of their appointment until after the close
of the said primary election. Subsequent to the close of
the next general registration which shall be had in any
county or in the city of Baltimore after the passage of
this Act, no one shall be eligible to be appointed primary
election inspector unless he shall be enrolled on the regis-
tries as a member of the political party for which he is
so appointed. Persons appointed primary election in-
spectors shall be notified of that fact, and shall attend be-
fore the Board of Supervisors of Elections at such reason-
able time and place as shall be specified in the notice of
their appointment, and shall there take and subscribe an
oath before the said Board of Supervisors of Elections or
before some member thereof, substantially as follows:

"I ———— do hereby solemnly swear (or affirm) that I
will honestly, faithfully and truly discharge my duties
as an inspector of the primary election of the ————
political party, which oath shall be prescribed among the
records of the Board of Supervisors; said board may re-
move any person whom they may find unfit or incapable
of discharging the duties of primary election inspector,
and, in case of urgent necessity, they may excuse said
primary election inspector, and they shall have the
power to fill the vacancy occasioned by such removal or
by such excuse. Any person appointed primary election
inspector who shall refuse to qualify, or, who having
qualified, shall neglect or refuse to act, shall be subject