ELECTIONS 1399

file his reasons f or not doing so as in the case of an original appointment,
and he shall appoint as and from list as provided in case of an original
appointment.

: Where a new law provides that supervisors holding under the old law should con-
tinue to hold as though they had been appointed under new law, there is no vacancy
which Governor is authorized to fill, although supervisors cannot, under the new law,
enter upon the discharge of their duties until a subsequent date. Munroe v. Wells, 83
Md. 509.

This section construed in connection with art. 70, sec. 11, of the Code and art. 2,
sec. 11, of the Maryland Constitution. If this section undertakes to extend the term
of appointee to fill a vacancy, beyond end ,of next- legislative session, it must yield to
the above constitutional provision. Sappington v. Slade, 91 Md. 647.
¹ Power is vested in the Governor to fill a vacancy in office of supervisor of elections
both by this section and by art. 2, sec. 11, of the Constitution. Truitt v. Collins, 122
Md. 530.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 6. 1912, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 4. 1937, chs. 95

and 176. 1939, ch. 459.

6. Each board of supervisors shall have an office and shall provide all
necessary ballot-boxes and ballots and all registry books, poll books, tally
sheets, blanks and stationery of every description, with printed headings
and certificates, necessary and proper for the registry of voters and con-
duct of elections, and for every incidental purpose connected therewith;
and the expenses thereof shall be paid by the county or by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore, as the case may be, as above provided. It shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners of the several counties and of
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to allow the reasonable use of
the public buildings in their respective counties and in said city by the
election supervisors thereof, and to light and heat the same for such use,
and in all proper ways to facilitate them in the discharge of their duties
as such supervisors.

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

1935, ch. 235.

7. Each Board of Supervisors shall have the right and authority to
procure an official seal with which to authenticate the official papers and
documents of said Board.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 6. 1898, ch. 356.

1902, ch. 296. 1914, ch. 391. 1918, ch. 202. 1920 (special session), ch. 1, sec. 6.

1922, ch. 445. 1924, ch. 466. 1931, ch. 332. 1933, ch. 417. 1937, ch. 95,

sec. 7. 1939, chs. 436, 562 and 593.

8. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of the several counties may
have clerks, with the consent of the County Commissioners, for their
respective counties, at such compensation as the said County Commis-
sioners may fix. Beginning with January 1, 1939, the Supervisors of
Elections of the City of Baltimore shall have a chief clerk at a salary of
thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, an assistant chief clerk
at a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, two regis-
trars at a salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000) each per annum, two
clerks at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) each per annum,
one clerk at a salary of twenty-two hundred dollars ($2,200) per annum,
two clerks at a salary of nineteen hundred dollars ($1,900) each per
annum, three clerks at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each
per annum, four clerks at a salary of seventeen hundred dollars ($1,700)