ELECTIONS. 1223

Power is vested in the Governor to fill a vacancy in office of supervisor of elec-
tions both by this section and by art. 2, sec. 11, of the Constitution. Truitt v. Collins,
122 Md. 530.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 4.

6. Each board of supervisors shall have an office and shall provide all
necessary ballot-boxes and ballots and all registry books, poll books, tally
sheets, blanks and stationery of every description, with printed headings
and certificates, necessary and proper for the registry of voters and conduct
of elections, and for every incidental purpose connected therewith; and the
expenses thereof shall be paid by the county or by the mayor and city coun-
cil of Baltimore, as the case may be, as above provided. It shall be the
duty of the county commissioners of the several counties and of the mayor
and city council of the city of Baltimore to allow the reasonable use of the
public buildings in their respective counties and in said city by the election
supervisors thereof, and to light and heat the same for such use, and in
all proper ways to facilitate them in the discharge of their duties as such
supervisors.

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

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 6. 1898, ch. 356. 1902, ch. 296.

1914, ch. 391. 1918, ch. 202. 1920 (special session), ch. 1, sec. 6.

1922, ch. 445. 1924, ch. 466.

7. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of the several counties may
have clerks, with the consent of the County Commissioners, for their respec-
tive counties, at such compensation as the said County Commissioners may
fix. The Supervisors of Election of the City of Baltimore shall have a
chief clerk at a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500), one clerk
at a salary of twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2,700), one clerk at a salary
of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) ; two clerks at a salary of twenty-
two hundred dollars ($2,200) each per annum, two clerks at a salary of
nineteen hundred dollars ($1,900) each per annum, two clerks at a salary of
eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each per annum, two clerks at a salary
of seventeen hundred dollars ($1,700) each per annum, three clerks at a
salary of sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600) each per annum, one carpenter
at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. The said clerks, and in the
City of Baltimore, the chief clerk, and clerks and carpenter shall be
appointed by the respective board of supervisiors and shall be removable
by them in their discretion. In Baltimore City, the chief clerk, with the
approval of the supervisors, shall from time to time, secure such temporary
assistance as may be necessary for the proper transaction of the business
of the office, but the compensation of such assistants to be paid bv the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore, upon requisition by the said supervisors
shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) in any one
year.