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may be increased by the County Commissioners in their discretion. The
clerk so appointed shall hold his office at the pleasure of the Board of
Supervisors of Elections, and shall be removable by them in their discretion
at any time. It shall be the duty of the clerk in said county, with the
approval of the Supervisors of Elections, to secure such temporary assist-
ants as may be necessary for the proper transaction of the business of the

office, but the compensation of such assistants shall not exceed the sum of
three hundred dollars ($300. 00) in any one year. The salary of the clerk
and the compensation of the temporary assistants shall be payable by the
County Commissioners of Washington County.

Judges and Clerks of Election.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 10. 1912, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 9.
1924, ch. 426. sec. 9. 1931. ch. 273.

10. Each person selected as judge or clerk by the Board of Super-
visors shall be promptly notified of the fact of his selection, with

directions to appear within the time fixed in the notice before the board
for the purpose of examination; and if, upon examination, he is found
qualified, he shall, unless excused by the supervisors for good cause, be
appointed by the supervisors and shall be bound to serve as such officer for
the term of two years. The supervisors shall keep books in which shall be
written down the names of all the judges and clerks so appointed, the date
and manner of notice to them to appear and whether or not they appear,
and, if appearing, whether they were appointed, rejected or excused, and
if rejected or excused, the reasons therefor. No person shall be compelled
to serve as judge or clerk for one year after the expiration of his term of
service, and all persons so serving shall be exempt from jury duty during
the term of their service and for one year thereafter. Any person so
selected and notified to appear for examination who shall not appear before
the board as required or shall refuse to serve, shall be fined not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, unless it shall appear
that he was not qualified for such service by reason of ill health, infirmity
or old age. It shall be duty of the supervisors to notify the State's Attorney
of the county or City of Baltimore of the failure, refusal or neglect of any
person, and to require the State's Attorney to institute proceedings for
such penalty at the next term of court.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 15. 1912. sec. 14. 1904, sec. 14. 1896, ch. 202. sec. 13.
1902, ch. 545. 1910, ch. 546 (p. 103). 1914, ch. 719. 1927, ch. 213.

15. Said Board of Supervisors shall give ten days' notice of the time
and place of registration, and of revision thereof, and of elections in each
precinct of such county or city, by handbills set up in the most public
places in such precinct, and also in the counties, by advertisements in two
newspapers (one of which newspapers, if possible, shall be of opposite polit-
ical faith from that of the majority of said supervisors) or general circula-
tion therein, except in Howard County, where the Supervisors of Elections