1296 ARTICLE 33.

An. Code, see. 125. 1904, sec. 123. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 114B. 1914, ch. 17.

135. The Board of Supervisors of Election of Anne Arundel County
shall annually on the first day of June in each year appoint some practicing
member of the bar of Anne Arundel County to act as general counsel for
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 said Board of Supervisors, officers of registra-
tion and judges of election at the hearing of all petitions and suits which
may be filed or brought for or against them under the provisions of Article
33 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title " Elections," or
involving their rights and duties thereunder. For his services as such
general counsel he shall receive an annual salary of four hundred dollars,
to be paid in equal quarterly installments by the County Commissioners of
Anne Arundel County, and he shall not receive any other compensation,
emolument, pay, fee, appearance fee or recompense of any kind whatsoever.

And no attorney's fee shall be taxed as a part of the costs in any such
cases. He may be removed and other counsel may be appointed in his place
for the same purposes and with the same salary at the discretion of said
board.

An. Code, sec. 126. 1904, sec. 124. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 117. 1904, ch. 254.

136. The boundaries of the election districts of the counties and of the
wards of Baltimore city shall remain as now established by law, but before
the first general registration held under this article, and before every sub-
sequent general registration, or whenever in the judgment of the board of
supervisors of elections of Baltimore city it shall be deemed expedient, it
shall be the duty of said board to divide and establish precincts in the said
wards, as in the judgment of said board shall best promote the convenience
of voters; provided, that no precinct upon the basis of the registry of voters
in use at the election in the next year preceding that in which such pre-
cincts are. divided and established shall contain over four hundred and fifty
registered voters in the city. In dividing and establishing precincts in the
city of Baltimore, the new precincts shall conform to the boundaries of the
legislative and congressional districts established by law. The precincts of
each ward shall be numbered from one upward, consecutively. The bound-
aries of said precincts shall be made known by advertising in one or more
newspapers in said city once a week for two successive weeks before the
first day of July in each year in which such division is made. Such addi-
tional books of registry and such copies of the original books of registry of
the year 1903, as are provided by the said board of supervisors of elections
under the provisions of this section, and the original books of registry of
Baltimore city for the year 1903, shall be used at the general elections to
be held in the city of Baltimore in said years 1904 and 1905.

This section referred to in construing sec. 137—see note thereto. Brome v. Dorsey,
99 Md. 608.