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be, who shall pay the same by warrant drawn upon the proper officers
of their county or of said city.

County commissioners, held to be required to make a levy to pay an indebtedness
contracted by supervisors for primary election voting bo'oths, ballots, etc., incurred
in accordance with a local law. Kenneweg v. Allegany County, 102 Md. 129.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 3.

4. Before entering upon the duties of their office said supervisors of
elections shall each take and subscribe the oath prescribed in the sixth
section of the first article of the constitution and also an oath to perform

faithfully and honestly the duties imposed upon them by law. These oaths
shall be taken before and duly recorded by the clerk of the circuit court
for the county or of the superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may
be, who shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for each oath, to be
paid by the supervisor. Within twenty days after their appointment the
supervisors of election for each county and for the city of Baltimore,
respectively, shall organize as a board by electing one of their number as
president; and they shall hold office for two years and until their successors
are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed, for good cause shown,
by the governor who shall have power to so remove them at any time upon
written charges, after notice and hearing.

This section referred to and the case of Sappington v. Slade, 91 Md. 640, dis-
tinguished in deciding that members of a racing commission did not come within
the purview of art. 1, sec. 6, of the Md. Constitution. Clark v. Harford Assn., 118
Md. 616.

The Governor alone can remove a supervisor for good cause shown, upon written
charges, and after notice and hearing. Coffin v. Brown, 94 Md. 195.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 4.

5. In case of any vacancy in the number of said supervisors of election
occurring when the legislature is not in session, the governor shall appoint
some eligible person to fill such vacancy during the remainder of the term
of office of the person originally appointed; but if the latter was appointed
as the representative of a political party, then only a person belonging to
the same political party shall be eligible as his successor; and it shall be
the duty of the governor before appointing such successor to request the
State central committee representing such political party in the county or
city, as the case may be, to designate candidates for such successor in the
same manner as in the case of an original appointment; and if the governor
shall see fit not to appoint any one of the persons so designated, he shall
file his reasons for not doing so as in the case of an original appointment,
and he shall appoint as and from list as provided in case of an original
appointment.

Where a new law provides that supervisors holding under the old law should con-
tinue to hold as though they had been appointed under new law, there is no vacancy
which Governor 'is authorized to fill, although supervisors cannot, under the new
law, enter upon the discharge of their duties until a subsequent date. Munroe v.
Wells, 83 Md. 509.

This section construed in connection with art. 70, sec. 11, of the Code and art. 2,
sec. 11, of the Maryland Constitution. If this section undertakes to extend the term
of appointee to fill a vacancy, beyond end of next legislative session, it must yield
to the above constitutional provision. Sappington v. Slade, 91 Md. 647.