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to choose some public officer or officers under the laws of this State, or
to pass upon any law or other public act or proposition submitted to vote
by law. In computing the times for notices to be given under this sub-
title Sundays shall be included, except when the day on which said notice
should be given should happen to fall on Sunday, in which event the same
shall be given on the Monday following; the day of giving the notice and
the day of registration or election shall be excluded.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270ZZZZ. 1918 Code, sec. 454.

429. In all trials for offenses against any of the provisions of this sub-
title, or of any existing law relating to registration or elections,, where
such offense is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, the State
and defense shall each be entitled to twenty peremptory challenge of jurors.

1898, ch. 2. 1904, ch. 329, sec. 270AAAAA. 1918 Code, sec. 455.

430. At least thirty days before every city election the city attorney
shall prepare full instructions for the guidance of the voters of such elec-
tion as to obtaining ballots, as to the manner of marking them, and the
method of gaining assistance, and as to obtaining new ballots in the place
of those accidentally destroyed, with such other instructions as shall, in his
opinion, be necessary and proper. Said instructions shall be furnished by
the Board of Supervisors of Elections, who shall respectively cause the
same, together with copies of Sections 380, 381 and 382 of this Article,
to be printed in large, clear type, on separate cards, to be called "Cards
of Instruction," and the said Board of Supervisors shall furnish twelve
of the same, with the ballots for use in each election precinct. They shall
also cause to be printed on light cardboard or heavy, sized paper, ten or
more copies of the form of ballot provided for each voting place, at each
election therein, which shall be called "Specimen Ballots," and the same
shall be furnished with the other ballots prepared for each voting place.
On the morning of the said election, the said Supervisors of Elections
shall cause to be conspicuously posted in each polling place said cards of
instruction and fac-simile ballots, and one of said cards of instruction
shall be affixed in each booth or voting compartment, and the specimen
ballots shall be conspicuously displayed in said polling room, and on the
outside of the building wherein said voting shall take place. Not less
than three of said cards and three of said specimen ballots shall be posted
outside the guard rail, and not less than three of each of the 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 position that
the same may be easily examined by the public.

1898, ch. 2, sec. 270BBBBB. 1918 Code, sec. 456.

431. The Board of Supervisors of Election 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 com-
pensation as shall be allowed by the Board of Aldermen upon the approval

of the Mayor.