ART. 33] JUDGES AND CLERKS. 535

ments. The record of appointments to fill vacancies shall be kept in
the books as hereinbefore prescribed in Section 9, which books, with the
recommendation and protests made to them, and all their other records
and papers shall always be open to the inspection of the public. After
notice as aforesaid of their appointments, the judges and clerks shall
again be notified to appear at the office of said Board, and shall then
and there, after taking the oath of office before one of said Supervisors,
receive their commissions. The oath of office shall be in writing and
subscribed by each one in a book to be kept for the purpose by the Super-
visors, and shall be in substance as follows: Residing at.............

in the City (or County) of.........................in the State of

Maryland, do solemnly swear, (or affirm) that I am a legal .voter in
the....................... Precinct of the.................. Ward

of the City (or.................District of................County),

in the said State, that I will support the Constitution of the United
States, and that I will be faithful and bear true' allegiance to the State
of Maryland and support the Constitution and Laws thereof, and that
I will faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of an officer of regis-
tration and judge of election (or clerk of election) for the............

Precinct of the......................Ward of the City (or District)

of.....................County, in the State of Maryland, according

to the best of my ability, and I do further swear (or affirm) that I will
not attempt to ascertain, save in cases and in the manner on which I
am authorized by law so to do, for what candidate or candidates any
person shall vote or has voted on any question which may be or may
have been submitted to the vote of the people, and if such knowl-
edge shall be acquired by me, I will not, directly, or indirectly, by word
or act, divulge or reveal the same or aid in doing so, save when I am
required to do so by law in some legal proceedings.

See notes to this section (as it stood in 1911) in volume 1 of the Anno-
tated Code.

1904, art. 33, sec. 14. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 13. 1902, ch. 545. 1910, ch. 546
(p. 103). 1914, ch. 719.

14. Said Board of Supervisors shall give ten days' notice of the time
and place of registration, and of revision thereof, and of elections in
each precinct of such county or city, by handbills set up in the most
public places in such precinct, and also in the counties, by advertise-
ments in two newspapers (one of which newpspapers, if possible, shall
be of opposite political faith from that of the majority of said super-
visors) or general circulation therein, except in Howard County, where
the Supervisors of Elections may publish in one newspaper the notice
above required, and in the City of Baltimore, by advertisement in all
the daily newspapers which will publish the same at their current rate
of advertising. And the Sheriff of Baltimore City and of each county
shall no longer publish such notices of election. Said Board shall make
all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent with this Article,