ELECTIONS. 1221

visors of Election of the Respective Counties and of Said City." Said
supervisors shall be residents and voters in their respective counties or in
the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, and two of them shall always
be selected from the two leading political parties of the State, one from
each of said parties. They shall be men of high character and integrity
and of recognized business capacity. Before appointing such supervisors of
elections the governor shall request the State central committees, repre-
senting each of the two leading political parties of the State in each county
and in said city, as the case may be, to designate at least four eligible candi-
dates for the position of supervisor of elections in their respective counties
and in said city, and the governor shall appoint one of the persons so desig-
nated for any particular county or for said city, unless, in his judgment,
all of said persons shall be unfit or incompetent for said position, in which
case he shall file a written statement to that effect with the secretary of
state, setting forth such fact and the grounds therefor, and thereupon he
shall call upon the said committee for the city or county, as the case may be,
for another list of six names and from said list and the original list he shall
make the appointment.

The office of supervisor of elections is a civil office within meaning of art. 2, sec. 10,
of the Md. Constitution, but being of statutory creation, the legislature may abolish
the office or change mode of appointment. Appellant held to have been properly
appointed by Governor when the senate was not in session, in place of his nominee
rejected by senate. Mandamus. Demurrer. Riggin v. Lankford, 134 Md. 153.

Act of 1916, ch. 426, incorporating town of Bowie in Prince George's county held
not to violate provisions of art. 33, since the election provided for in said act was not
to be held under that article. This act did not repeal any part of art. 33 so as to
affect provisions thereof as applicable to elections not provided for by said act.
Johnson v. Luers, 129 Md. 534.

Act of 1896, ch. 202, repealed the prior law relative to elections and adopted an
entirely different system of registration. Turner v. Bryan, 83 Md. 373; Meloy v.
Scott, 83 Md. 375. See also Munroe v. Wells, 83 Md. 508.

Cited but not construed in Sappington v. Slade, 91 Md. 644.

An. Code, sec. 1A. 1920 (special session), ch. 1, sec. 1A.

2. Wherever in this Article words or phrases are used denoting the
masculine gender they shall be taken to include the feminine gender.
See art. 1, sec. 7, and notes.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 2. 1902, ch. 296.

3. Each supervisor of elections of Baltimore city shall receive an
annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars and each supervisor of elec-
tions of any of the counties of this State shall receive an annual salary of
one hundred dollars, which salary may, in counties having more than fifteen
polling places, be increased by the county commissioners, in their dis-
cretion, to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars. These
salaries and all other expenses incurred by them under this article shall,
upon their requisition, be audited by the county commissioners of their
respective counties or by the comptroller of Baltimore city, as the case may