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ARTICLE XXXIIL

ELECTIONS.

Supervisors of Elections. 1. Appointment of supervisors. 2. Salary. 3. Oath. 4. Vacancies in such office. 5. Ballot-boxes, etc., to be provided by supervisors. 6. Clerks and messenger for such supervisors; salaries of snch clerks and messenger. Judges and Clerks of Election. 7. Appointment of judges and clerks. 8. Supervisors may have veto on such selections. 9. Notice to persons selected to ap- pear. Penalty for refusal to serve. 10. Judges and clerks of certain coun- ties not required to appear be- fore supervisors. 11. Duty of board of supervisors as to judges and clerks appointed. Notice by publication. Oath of office. Vacancies, how filled. 12. Registration offices and polling places. 13. Monthly report of males who have died to be furnished. 14. Ten days' notice of registration to be given.

Registration. 15. Judges of election to act as regis- ters. Their duties and powers as such. 16. Registry books to be furnished to each ward. Form of registration books. 17. First meeting of board of registra- tion. Oath to applicants for reg- istration. Entries to be made in registration books. How regis- ters are to be signed. 18. Police census of voters to be made annually in Baltimore city. 19. Voters may have the right to chal- lenge any applicant. 20. Subsequent meetings of board of registry. 21. Board of registry to make out list of persons suspected to be dis- qualified. Notices to be sent 22. Subsequent meeting of registers in Baltimore city. 23. Revision of registration. Hearing of persons to whom notice was sent. 24. Registers must agree and be signed. Return of registers and lists. Copies of lists to be furnished on application. 25. Persons aggrieved may file peti- tions. Right of appeal.

Where the law under which an appellant was refused registration, is repealed
before the appeal is heard and an entirely new system enacted, the appeal will be
dismissed. Turner v. Bryan, 83 Md. 373.

As to the requirements of appointees to public office with reference to resi-
dence in Maryland, see art. 69, sec. 12.

As to the publication of the names of officials in default to the state, see art.
19, sec. 23.

As to the governor's employing clerical help to assist in election business, see
art. 41, sec. 23.

On account of the frequent changes in many of the sections of this article,
care should be exercised to inquire whether the law as stated in the notes, Is
based on the statute as it now exists.
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