ELECTIONS. 1295

supervisors of election shall cause to be conspicuously posted in each polling
place said cards of instructions, and one of said cards of instruction shall
be fixed in each booth or voting compartment; not less than three of said
cards shall be posted outside of the guardrails, and not less than three of
each of same shall be securely and conspicuously posted on the outside of
the building in which the polls are held before the balloting begins, in such,
positions that the same may be easily examined by the public; it shall also
be the duty of the several boards of supervisors of elections, on the morning
of said election, to cause to be conspicuously posted in each polling place
and in each voting booth of each polling place, separate tickets or lists con-
taining the names of the candidates of each political party, with a designa-
tion of the several offices for which they are candidates, so that voters may
thereby be aided in selecting the candidates for whom they wish to vote
and in marking the official ballot accordingly. This section shall apply to
Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Kent, Prince George's, Queen
Anne's, St. Mary's, Somerset, Talbot and Worcester Counties.

An. Code, sec. 125. 1904, sec. 123. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 114B.
134. The boards of supervisors of elections for the several counties
shall have power to employ an attorney, who shall also be the attorney for
the judges of election, whether acting as such or as registration officers, to
receive such compensation as shall be allowed by the county commissioners
upon the approval of the circuit court. In the city of Baltimore the board
of supervisors of elections shall biennially appoint some practicing member
of the bar of Baltimore city to act as general counsel for the said board and
for the officers of registration and judges of election appointed by them, in
all matters and proceedings pertaining to their duties, and to appear for and
defend the said judges of election at the hearing of all petitions which may
be filed against them as officers of registration under the provisions of this
Article. For his services such counsel shall receive an annual salary of
twelve hundred dollars, to be paid in equal quarterly installments by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore. He may be removed and other counsel
may be appointed in his place at the discretion of said board, and whenever
petitions filed against officers of registration and pending before more than
one of the judges of the supreme bench of Baltimore city at the same time,
he may appoint, with the approval of the Board of Supervisors, as many
additional counsel as may be necessary to assist him in trying said petitions,
who shall each be paid such sum, not exceeding one hundred and fifty
dollars in any one year, as he shall certify, with the approval of the Board
of Supervisors, to be a reasonable and proper compensation for their respec-
tive services; provided, that the whole number of counsel retained at any
one time, including himself, shall in no case exceed the number of judges
then engaged in hearing such petitions.1

Services of counsel held to be such as county commissioners were required to pay
for under this section. Hence, mandamus will issue. Anne Arundel County v.
Melvin, 107 Md. 534.

1 The provision as to Baltimore city was repealed by act of 1916, ch. 560, which act
imposed the duty of counsel upon the attorney-general.