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ARTICLE 33.

ELECTIONS.1

Supervisors of Elections. 1. Appointment of supervisors. 2. Masculine includes feminine gender. 3. Salary. 4. Oath. 5. Vacancies in such office. 6. Ballot-boxes, etc., to be provided by supervisors. 7. Clerks to supervisors; assistants. Judges and Clerks of Election. 8. Appointment of judges and clerks. 9. Supervisors may have veto on such selections. 10. Notice to persons selected to appear. Penalty for refusal to serve. 11. How sworn in and appointed. 12. Appointment of judges and clerks; va- cancies; oath. 13. Registration offices and polling places. 14. Public buildings as polling places. 15. Ten days' notice of registration to be given. Registration. 16. Judges of election to act as registers. Their duties and powers as such.

17. Registry books to be furnished to each ward. Form of registration books. 18. Proceedings of board of registry; oath; entries; list of names, etc. 19. Women not to give exact age. 20. Registration prior to primaries; no application to Baltimore City. 21. Police census of voters to be made an- nually in Baltimore city. 22. Voters may have right to challenge applicant. 23. Subsequent meetings of board of registry. 24. Board of registry to make out list of persons suspected to be disqualified. Notices to be sent. 25. Revision of registration. Hearing of persons to whom notice sent. 26. Comparison and correction of reg- isters; certificate; list of names. 27. Persons aggrieved may file petitions. Right of appeal. 28. New registration in counties in 1914. Transcribing names into new books. 29. Registration in Baltimore city in 1922 and quadrennially thereafter. Re- moval certificate. Disqualified voters, etc.

1 Where law under which an appellant was refused registration, is repealed before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

As to requirements of appointees to public office with reference to residence in Mary-
land, see art. 69, sec. 12.

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

As to Governor's employing clerical help to assist in election business, see art. 41,
sec. 30.

This article referred to in holding state election officials liable for damages for deny-
ing the right of negroes to vote; see act of 1908, ch. 525, and fifteenth amendment to
U. S. Constitution. Meyers v. Anderson, 59 L. Ed. 1349.

See art. 7 of Declaration of Rights and art. 3, secs. 42 and 49, and art. 15, secs. 7 and 10,
of Md. Constitution.

As to the elective franchise, voters, offences in connection with elections, and persons
elected or appointed to office, see art. 1 of the Md. Constitution.

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 notes, is based on the statute as it
now exists.