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of voters in use at the election in the next year preceding that in which
such precincts are divided and established shall contain over four hundred
and fifty registered voters in the city. In dividing and establishing pre-
cincts in the City of Baltimore, the new precincts shall conform to the
boundaries of the legislative and congressional districts established by law.
The precincts of each ward shall be numbered from one upward, con-
secutively. The boundaries of said precincts shall be made known by
advertising in one or more newspapers in said city one time and at least
one week before the first day of registration following the establishment
of the new boundaries. Such additional books of registry and such copies
of the original books of registry of the year 1903, as are provided by the
said board of supervisors of elections under the provisions of this section,
and the original books of registry of Baltimore City for the year 1903,
shall be used at the general election to be held in the City of Baltimore
in said years 1904 and 1905.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 13S. 1920 (Special Sess. ), ch. 1, sec. 127A. 1922, ch. 318,

sec. 127A. 1931, ch. 84.

138. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City and the
Boards of Supervisors of Elections of the several counties shall have power
whenever more than 600 persons are registered in any one election pre-
cinct or in any election district which may not be divided into election
precincts, to provide one additional polling place in each such election
precinct or district; and whenever the several Boards of Supervisors of
Election shall designate an additional polling place in any election pre-
cinct or in any election district not divided into precincts they shall ap-
point judges and clerks of election therefor, as in this Article provided,
who shall have all the powers, perform all the duties, be subject to all the
responsibilities, and be liable to all the penalties prescribed in this Article
for judges and clerks of election. Whenever an additional polling place
is provided for any such election precinct or election district, it shall be
the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Election to cause an additional
set or sets of books to be prepared, containing the names of registered
voters transcribed from the original books. One set of books shall contain
the names of voters whose surnames begin with the letter "A" down to
and including those whose surnames begin with the letter "J. " The other
set of books shall contain the names of registered voters whose surnames
begin with the letter "K, " down to and including those whose surnames
begin with the letter "Z. " One set of books shall be used in each of the
polling places designated as provided for in this section. All the mem-
bers of the Boards of Supervisors of the counties or the City of Balti-
more, as the case may be, shall sign their names to the books which contain
the names copied from the original books for such polling places in the
hands of said supervisors, and shall duly certify that such sets of books
so copied contain all the names of the persons entitled to vote in such
election precinct or district, such said certificate shall appear on the
blank line next following the last name in each letter of the alphabetical