1398 ARTICLE 33

County may also employ and appoint a clerk, who 'shall be paid an annual
salary of three hundred dollars ($300.00), payable on the order of the
County Commissioners of Frederick County in equal monthly instalments,
but said Board of Supervisors of Elections shall employ no other as-
sistants or clerks of any kind whatsoever, except with the approval of the
Board of County Commissioners of Frederick County and at such com-
pensation as may be fixed by the said Board Of County Commissioners.
The Board of Supervisors of Elections of Wicomico County shall receive
an annual salary of three hundred dollars ($300.00), payable on the order
of the County Commissioners of Wicomico County in equal-quarterly
installments, and they shall not receive any other compensation emolu-
ment, pay or recompense of any kind whatsoever for their services, includ-
ing services rendered under Section 240 of this Article, provided, how-
ever, that in the event of special elections or special services rendered the
Board of County Commissioners of Wicomico County shall allow such
additional compensation as may by said County Commissioners be deemed
commensurate with such special services rendered.

County commissioners, held to be required to make a levy to pay ah indebtedness
contracted by supervisors for primary election voting booths, ballots, etc., incurred in
according with a local law. Kenneweg v. Allegany County, 102 Md. 129.

Cited in construing Art. 78. Jackson v. Norris, 173 Md. 585.

An. Code, 1924, .sec. 4. 1912, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1896, .ch. 202, sec. 3.

4. Before entering upon the duties of their office said supervisors of
elections shall each take and subscribe the oath prescribed in the sixth
section of the first article of the constitution and also an oath to perform
faithfully and honestly the duties imposed upon them by law. These oaths
shall be taken before and duly recorded by the clerk of the circuit court
for the county or of the superior court of Baltimore City, as the case may
be, who shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for each oath, to be
paid by the supervisor. Within twenty days after their appointment the
supervisors of election for each county and for the city of Baltimore,
respectively, shall organize as a board by electing one of their number as
president; and they shall hold office for two years and until their successors
are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed; for good cause shown,
by the governor who shall have power to so remove them at any time upon
written charges, after notice and hearing.

This section referred to and the case of Sappington v. Slade, 91 Md. 640, distin-
guished in deciding that members of a racing commission did not come within the
purview of art. 1, sec. 6, of the Md. Constitution. Clark v. Harford Assn., 118 Md. 616.

The Governor alone can remove a supervisor for good cause shown, upon written
charges, and after notice and hearing. Coffin v. Brown, 94 Md. 195.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 5. 1912, sec. 4. 1904; sec. 4. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 4.

5. In case of any vacancy n the number of said supervisors of. election
occurring when the legislature is not in session, the governor shall appoint
some eligible person to fill such vacancy during the remainder of the term
of office, of the person originally appointed; but if the latter was appointed
as the representative of a political party, then only a person belonging to
the same political party shall be eligible as his successor; and it shall be
the duty of the governor before appointing such .successor to request the
State central committee representing such political party in the county or
city, as the case may be, to designate candidates for. such successor in the
same manner as in the case of an original: appointment, and if the .governor
shall see fit not to appoint any one of the persons so designated, he shall