CARROLL COUNTY. 1871

1900, ch. 206, sec. 173.

447. The method of polling all elections in said town shall be as fol-
lows: It shall be the duty of the Mayor to appoint at least three (3)
days prior to the holding of such elections three citizens, qualified voters
of said town, to act as judges of election, and one person to act as clerk
of election. In case of the failure of said judges or clerk so appointed to
appear and qualify as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the Mayor
to issue a certificate to one or more persons, as the case may be, to fill the
vacancy, who shall appear and qualify as herein provided. In case of
death, absence or inability of the Mayor to issue such certificates, the
duty of issuing the same shall devolve upon the chairman of the Council,

1900, ch. 206, sec. 173A.

448. The said judges shall be conservators of the peace during the con-
tinuance of the election and until the ballots shall be counted, and the
necessary certificates required by this Article shall be made out by the
judges and clerk, and they shall be vested with the power and authority
to commit offenders for any breach of the peace in the like manner as
any justice of the peace.

1900, ch. 206, sec. 173B.

449. Every judge of election, at every election to be hereafter held in
the town of Union Bridge in pursuance of law, before he proceeds to take
or receive any vote shall take the following oath or affirmation before a
justice of the peace or notary public: "I, A. B., do swear (or affirm) that
I will permit all persons to vote who shall offer to vote at the election
now to be held for the town of Union Bridge whose names shall appear
on the registry or list of voters furnished to me according to law, as
qualified voters under the constitution and laws of this State, and that I
will not permit any person to vote at the same election whose name shall
not be found upon the said registry or list of qualified voters, and I will
in all things execute the office of judge of the said election, according to
the best of my knowledge, without favor or partiality."

1900, ch. 206, sec. 173C.

450. Every clerk before he enters any vote in the poll-books shall take
the following oath, to wit: "I, A. B., do swear that I will well and faith-
fully, without favor, affection or partiality, execute the office of clerk of
the election now to be held according to the best of my knowledge, so help
me God."

1900, ch. 206, sec. 173D.

451. At the close of the polls the judges shall immediately count the
ballots, cast up the vote, and return under their hands and seals to the
clerk of the town of Union Bridge the number of votes cast for each
candidate, and return the persons receiving the highest number of votes
as duly elected, and they shall return at the same time the ballots that