1108 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 695]

election, all of whom shall have the same qualifications as the
Board of Election Supervisors.

And the said Board of Election Supervisors and judges and
clerks of election shall receive for their services the sum of
two dollars for each day or part thereof they shall act in their
several capacities hereunder, to be paid out of the general fund
of the said town, and the said Board of Election Supervisors
and all judges and clerks of election before entering upon their
duties as such, shall each take and subscribe an oath to faith-
fully, honestly and without prejudice or partiality perform
each and every duty required of them under the provisions of
this act or any amendments thereto, and such oaths shall be
filed with the clerk to the City Council of said town, and the
Mayor shall have the power to remove the members of said
Board of Election Supervisors, and any election officials herein
provided for, at any time, upon written charges after notice
and a hearing, and to fill any vacancy or vacancies so created,
or which may occur by removal from said town, death, resig-
nation or failure to act, in the same manner as is provided for
original appointments. And no member of such Board of
Election Supervisors or any judge or clerk of election shall be
eligible to an elective or appointive office in said town while
so acting.

SEC. 19Y. And the said Board of Election Supervisors
shall meet on the first Wednesday in April, 1912, and there-
after biennially on the first Wednesday in April from 7:30
P. M. to 10:30 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of receiving
certificates for nomination for Mayor and City Councilmen,
which said nominations shall be in writing, signed by not less
than thirty duly qualified voters of said town, specifying the
street and ward in which they reside, and no signature shall be
counted if it shall be upon more than one nomination paper of
a candidate for Mayor, upon more than one nomination paper
of two candidates for Councilmen at large, or upon more than
one nomination paper of a candidate for Councilman from each
of the three wards.

No certificates of nomination shall be received by the said
Board of Election Supervisors after the said meeting of the
said Supervisors for the purpose of receiving such certificates
of nomination, as hereinbefore provided, except that in the
event of any vacancy occurring in nominations for Mayor and
City Councilmen, either by declination, death, or from any
other cause, the same may be filed in the manner herein pro-
vided, at 'any time prior to the Wednesday before the day of
any election, general or special, held hereunder; and in the