1298 ARTICLE 33.

County Commissioners of the counties in which such sub-divisions shall be
made upon proper requisitions and vouchers presented by the Boards of
Supervisors of Elections. The boundaries of said additional precincts estab-
lished under this section shall be made known by advertisement in two
newspapers in said counties, once a week for three successive weeks, before
the first day of September in each year, in which such sub-division is made,
said newspapers to be designated as provided in other cases under this
Article where advertisements are required to be made in at least two news-
papers ; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed
to alter or change the boundaries or location of any precinct as now estab-
lished by the several Boards of Supervisors of Elections, and all precincts
as now located and laid out or sub-divided by the Supervisors of Elections
be and the same are hereby sanctioned, ratified and confirmed; provided,
however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the several
Boards of Supervisors of Elections in the counties of this State.1

Under this section, supervisors are authorized not only to sub-divide election
districts by providing additional districts, but also to change the area and boundaries
of those already existing, and to establish new polling places and to have new registry
books prepared. This authority may be exercised from time to time as public con-
venience requires. Brome v. Dorsey, 99 Md. 608.

1920 (special session), ch. 1, sec. 127A. 1922, ch. 318, sec. 127A.

138. The Board of Supervisors of Election of Baltimore City and
the Boards of Supervisors of Election of the several counties shall have
power whenever more than 600 persons are registered in any one election
precinct or in any election district which may not be divided into election
precincts, to provide one additional polling place in each such election
precinct or district; and whenever the several Boards of Supervisors of
Elections shall designate an additional polling place in any election precinct
or in any election district not divided into precincts, they shall appoint
judges and clerks of election therefor, as in this Article provided, who shall
have all the powers, perform all the duties be subject to all the responsi-
bilities, and be liable to all the penalties prescribed in this Article for
judges and clerks of election. Whenever an additional polling place is pro-
vided for any such election precinct or election district, it shall be the
duty of the Board of Supervisors of Election to cause an additional set or
sets of books to be prepared, containing the names of registered voters
transcribed from the original books. One set of books shall contain the
names of voters whose surnames begin with the letter " A " down to and
including those whose surnames begin with the letter " J." The other set
of books shall contain the names of registered voters whose surnames begin
with the letter " K," down to and including those whose surnames begin
with the letter " Z." One set of books shall be used in each of the polling
places designated as provided for in this section. All the members of the
Boards of Supervisors of the counties or the City of Baltimore, as the
case may be, shall sign their names to the books which contain the names
copied from the original books for such polling places, in the hands of said

1 This clause is just as it appears in the acts of 1920 and 1922.