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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
district of the county, of the time and place of holding the several
elections aforesaid. |
1805.
CHAP. 97. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the respective
sheriffs shall, under
the penalty of five hundred dollars, provide, or cause to be
provided, and delivered to the judge or judges of the election in
each district, previous to, or at the commencement of, each election,
a box for receiving the ballots, and two separate books, for
the purpose of entering the voters names. |
Sheriffs to provide
ballot boxes, etc. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of
the levy courts
respectively shall, between the first Monday of April and the first
Monday of August next, appoint three persons for each election
district, resident therein, who, or a majority of any one of whom,
in case of the nonattendance of the other two, shall be judges or
judge of the election for such district, from the time of their appointment
until a new appointment; and the said court shall, for every
year thereafter, between the first Monday of April and the first
Monday of August (a), appoint judges as aforesaid in each election
district, for holding elections therein until displaced by a new
appointment; and the said judges, or such of them as shall attend,
shall be conservators of the peace during the continuance of the
election (b), and until the ballots shall be counted, and the necessary
certificates required by this act shall be made out and subscribed
by the said judges and clerks, and shall be vested, and hereby
are vested, with the power and authority to commit offenders for
any breach of the peace, in like manner as any justice of the peace
for such county; and in case any of the said judges shall die, resign,
remove out of the district, or become otherwise, in the opinion
of the court, disqualified to act as judge, the said court shall,
at any meeting thereafter, appoint a person as judge in his place;
and at every appointment of judge or judges as aforesaid, the clerk
of the county court shall record the same, and make out a warrant
therefor; and the clerk shall, within five days after receiving the same,
to deliver
the same to the person or persons so appointed, or leave it at
his or their last place of abode, under the penalty of fifty dollars
on the clerk or sheriff respectively who shall neglect his duty
aforesaid.
(a) By 1807, ch. 28, the levy
court of Saint Mary's county shall, some time in
the month of August, annually, appoint judges of elections for each election
district
in the county.
(b) By November 1812, ch. 19, the judges of election
in each election district in
Cecil county, shall appoint two constables of their respective districts,
to attend
on the days of election, for the preservation of peace, &c. |
Levy courts to appoint
judges of
elections. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any judge so appointed,
who shall
not attend at the time appointed for holding any election in his district,
shall forfeit fifty dollars for every such neglect, unless prevented
by sickness, or other sufficient cause in the opinion of the
court and jury before whom the prosecution therefor shall be heard,
tried and determined. |
Penalty on judges
for non-attendance. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case neither
of the judges
aforesaid shall attend as aforesaid for the space of one hour after
the time herein directed for opening the election, it shall and may
be lawful for the justices of the peace for the said county then present
at said place of election, or the majority of them, or for one
justice of the peace, in the event of but one being present, or in |
In case all judges
are absent, how
others are to be
appointed. |
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