ART. 33] JUDGES AND CLERKS. 841

lars and a messenger at a salary of eight hundred dollars per
annum. The said clerks, and, in the city of Baltimore, the said
messenger shall be appointed by the respective boards of supervisors
and shall be removable by them in their discretion. In Baltimore city
the clerk and messenger with the approval of the supervisors shall
from time to time secure such temporary assistance as may be necessary
ior the proper transaction of the business of the office, but the compensa-
tion of such assistants to be paid by the mayor and city council of
Baltimore upon requisition by the said supervisors shall not exceed
the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars in any one year.
As to the supervisors' attorney and his salary, see sec. 125.

Judges and Clerks of Election.

1904, art. 33, sec. 7. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 7.

7. In each year the board of supervisors of elections in the city of
Baltimore shall select before the first day of July four judges of elec-
tion; and before the fifteenth day of September two clerks for each
election precinct in said city taking two of such judges and one of such
clerks from each of the two leading political parties of the State. The
boards of supervisors in the several counties, in each year in which an
election in November is to be held in their respective counties, shall
select, before the first day of July, two judges of election, and.
before the fifteenth day of September, two more judges of elec-
tion and two clerks for each election district in their respective
counties or, where a district is divided into voting precincts, for
?ach voting precinct in such district taking one of such judges and
one of such clerks in making each such selection, and for each such vot-
ing precinct or district from each of the two leading political parties of
the State, so that such parties shall be equally represented at all times
among said election officers. It shall not be necessary to appoint new
or special judges or clerks of election for any election not held on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday in November whether general,
special, local or municipal, and whether such election be held in the
whole State or in any county or part thereof; but the judges and clerks
appointed under this article for the preceding November election shall
discharge the duties of said judges and clerks of election, respectively,
within their several precincts or districts wherein such election shall be
held. Each judge and each clerk must be a legal voter residing in the
precinct or district, as the case may be, for which he is selected, a man
of good capacity and character, able to speak, read and write the
English language, and skilled in the four fundamental rules of arith-
metic, not holding any other public office or employment, and not a
candidate for any office at the next election; provided, that in the city of
Baltimore whenever all three supervisors shall file in their office a
sworn statement in writing that suitable persons cannot, in their judg-
ment be secured in any particular precinct for some of the offices to be