554 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33:

in his place for the same purposes and with the same salary at the dis-
cretion of said board.

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

1904, art. 33, sec. 125. 1901, ch. 10, sec. 117A. 1912, ch. 511.
127. It shall be the duty of the Boards of Supervisors of Elections'
of the several counties, to examine the boundaries of the several elec-
tion districts and election precincts in their respective counties, from
time to time, and whenever in their judgment and discretion it shall
be expedient for the convenience of the voters, to subdivide any of
said election districts or election precincts, or to subdivide and change
the boundaries of any two or more precincts in any election district
into three or more precincts, they are hereby empowered and author-
ized to make such subdivisions and to establish the boundaries of such
subdivisions in such way as to facilitate and expedite the casting of
their ballots by the voters thereof, ether by the designation of an
entirely new and different polling place or places, or by providing for
two or more separate polling places at or near the former polling place
or places; provided, however, that no election district shall be sub-
divided into two or more precincts/that has not an excess of six hun-
dred voters; and no precinct or grotip of precincts in any district shall
be subdivided unless one or more of said precincts so intended to be-
divided, shall contain an excess of six hundred voters; and whenever,
in the exercise of the discretion conferred upon the several Boards of
Supervisors of Elections of this section, they shall subdivide any elec-
tion district or election precinct or precincts, they shall appoint officers-
of registration and judges and clerks of election therefor, as in this
article provided, who shall have all the powers, perform all the duties,
be subject to all the responsibilities and be liable to all the penalties
prescribed in this article for officers of registration, judges and clerks
of election. All the members of the Boards of Supervisors for the
several counties whenever any such district, precinct or precincts is or
are divided as herein provided shall sign their names to the books
which contain the names copied from the original books for such new
district, or precinct in the hands of such supervisors, and shall duly
certify that said new books contain all the names of the persons entitled
to vote in such newly established district or precinct, such said cer-
tificate shall appear on the blank line next following the last name in
each letter of the alphabetical list of names in the new book so tran-
scribed, and such said certificates shall be attested by the clerk to the
respective Boards of Supervisors; and said Boards of Supervisors shall
furnish to the officers of registration and judges of election appointed
by them for such new additional voting precincts full and complete sets
of registry books, containing the names of all voters already registered,
duly and properly arranged for such additional voting precincts, and
for the entering upon such registry books persons entitled to be newly