Ibid.) They shall open the polls at 6 o'clock in the
morning in the city of Baltimore, and close at 5 P. M.,
and in the counties the polls shall be opened at 8
o'clock in the morning and kept open at 6 P. M.
Vacancies in judges filled by other judge or judges on
the morning of election. (Sec. 56, Ibid.) Challengers
and watchers allowed. (Sec. 57, Ibid.) Poll book
must be kept by the clerk. (Sec. 58, Ibid.) Voting
booths must be constructed; ballot boxes to be inspected
as soon as the polls are opened; each qualified voter shall
be entitled to receive one official ballot; assistance al-
lowed to voters unable to read; spoiled ballots to be re-
turned and replaced; challenge of voters allowed. (Secs.
59 to 63, Ibid.)

Count of Ballots—Shall immediately proceed at the
place of polling at the close of the polls, and result an-
nounced at the end of the count. (Sees. 64 to 67, Ibid.)

Election Returns.—The judges shall make duplicate
.statements or returns of the result of the count, and
send to the officers provided for in sec. 68, Act of 1896,
ch. 202. shall preserve spoiled, rejected and defective
ballots; seal the ballot boxes; one judge shall take
charge of the ballot box and one of the key, which shall
be delivered to the Supervisors of Election, who shall
note the condition of the box, and keep boxes and ballots
for six months.

Legislative Uniformity Commissioners.—Three com-
missioners authorized by the name and style of " Com-
missioners for the Promotion of Uniformity of Legisla-
tion in the United States." $1,500 appropriated for ex-
penses. (Ch. 264, Acts of 1896.)

Maryland Militia.—The militia of this State shall con-
sist of all able bodied male citizens between the ages of
eighteen and fifty-five years of age, and not exempt by
the laws of the United States, except persons holding
any civil office created by the Constitution and laws of
the State, practicing physicians, ministers of any church
or religious denomination, conductors and engineers of
railways, captains and chief engineers of steam vessels
and licensed pilots; all such exempted persons shall be
liable to military duty in case of war, insurrection, inva-
sion or imminent danger thereof. (Sec. I, ch. 89, Act of
1896.)
The General Staff—-Adjutant General, with rank of