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place within the election precinct in which they are or shall be registered;
the Governor of Maryland, shall, at least twenty days before the day of
election, designate the location of said polling places, which shall not be
in any house where spirituous or fermented liquors or lager beer are sold,
and he shall also appoint three judges and two clerks of election for each
polling place, who shall be residents of and voters in the portion of Bal-
timore County described in the first section of this Act; at least one of
which said judges and one of said clerks shall be persons known to be in
favor of "City Extension," and at least one of which said judges and the
other of said clerks shall be persons known to be against the "City Exten-
sion"; the polls at said election shall be kept open from six o'clock in the
morning until seven o'clock in the evening; the ballots to be cast at the
said election shall have written or printed on them "For the City Exten-
sion" or "Against the City Extension"; at the close of said polls the judges
of election shall count the ballots which have been cast, and shall ascer-
tain the number of votes cast "For the City Extension" and the number
cast "Against the City Extension," and shall make out under their hands,
attested by the clerks, or one of them, three distinct statements or certifi-
cates of the number of votes cast "For the City Extension" and "Against
the City Extension," one of which certificates shall be entered on each
of the poll books used at the said election, and the other one of said cer-
tificates shall be by said judges sent forthwith to the Governor of the
State, who shall ascertain the result of the votes cast at the several voting
places, and make known the same by his proclamation; and if the Gov-
ernor shall, by his proclamation, declare that a majority of all the votes
cast at the said election were cast for the city extension, then from and
after the first day of. June, 1888, all that portion of Baltimore County
described in the first section, of this Act shall become and be a part of
Baltimore City. Each of the said, judges and clerks of election shall,
before entering upon, their duties, make oath or affirmation before the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (of which oath or affir-
mation a record shall be kept by said clerk), that he will faithfully con-
duct said election and protect it to the best of his ability against all frauds
and unfairness; any violation of the terms of said oath shall be deemed
a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, subject the offender to punish-
ment by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one
thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for not less than one month nor
more than six months, or to both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion
of the Court. The said judges of election shall return the ballots to the
Governor of the State, and one of the said poll-books containing the cer-
tificate above mentioned to the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, and the other to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the question of whether that
portion of Baltimore County described in the second section of this Act
shall be annexed to and become a part of Baltimore City, shall be sub-
mitted to the qualified registered voters residing within the said portion