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of their appointment and until a new appointment shall have been made;
and it shall be the duty of said Board in making the appointment of such
judges of election to select at least one of the said judges for each ward
from among those of the leading political parties different from them-
selves or a majority of themselves; if any of the said judges shall die,
resign or remove out of the ward for which he was appointed, or become
otherwise, in the opinion of said Board, disqualified to act as such judge
of election, then the Board of Supervisors of Election shall appoint a per-
son as judge for the ward in which each vacancy may occur; the said
Board of Supervisors of Election shall record every appointment so made
in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall make out a warrant for
such appointment and shall within two days thereafter deliver unto the
Chief of Police of the City of Hagerstown, under the penalty of fifty
dollars, who shall deliver such warrant to the person appointed as such
judge of election, or leave the same at his last place of abode within two
days next after the delivery of each of the said warrants to him under
the penalty of Fifty Dollars; said Board of Supervisors of Elections shall
likewise cause similar warrants to be delivered to such clerks or other
officers of election as are now or may be hereafter required by law. The
compensation for each of said judges of election shall be Eive Dollars for
each election, and no more, including the election held on the Fourth
Monday of March, 1920.

1900, ch. 388. 1920, ch. 492, sec. 161A-2. 1929, ch. 47.

266. The Supervisors of Election of the City of Hagerstown shall each
receive the sum of one hundred dollars for each general election conducted
by them and the sum of fifty dollars for each special election conducted
by them, to be paid by the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161B. 1920, ch. 499.

267. The Board of Supervisors shall appoint two (2) clerks, being
above the age of twenty-one years, to enter the names of voters separately
and plainly on the books provided for that purpose; and if any clerk so
appointed shall neglect or refuse to act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum
of twenty ($20.00) dollars. The compensation for each of such clerks
shall be the same as that of judges of election and shall commence as of
the municipal election of the year 1920.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161C.

268. Any judge of election appointed under the provisions of this
article who shall not attend at the time appointed for holding any election
in his ward shall forfeit fifty dollars, for every such neglect, unless pre-
vented by sickness or other sufficient cause, in the opinion of the court
and jury before whom he shall be tried.

1892, ch. 55, sec. 161D.

269. The said judges shall be conservators of the peace during the
continuance of the election and until the ballots shall be counted, and the