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each per annum, a custodian of voting machines at a salary of two thousand
dollars ($2,000) per annum, three deputy custodians of voting machines
at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each per annum, a stenog-
rapher at a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, and
two typists at a salary of one thousand dollars ($1,000) each per annum.
After January 1, 1940, the Supervisors of Elections of the City of Balti-
more shall, in addition to the above mentioned employee, have ten clerks
at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each per annum, and a
stenographer at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum.
Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the said Board
of Supervisors of Elections from requiring any of the above mentioned
employees to perform such duties as the said Board may, in its discretion,
deem advisable. The said clerks, and in the City of Baltimore, the chief
clerk and the other employees above enumerated shall be appointed by the
respective boards of supervisors and shall be removable by them in their
discretion except that in Baltimore City one of the registrars shall be
appointed by the member of the board who shall have been selected from
the political party opposite to that of the Governor; and shall be removable
by such member of the board in his discretion. In Baltimore City, the
chief clerk, with the approval of the supervisors, shall from time to time,
secure such temporary assistants as may be necessary for the proper trans-
action of the business of the office, but the compensation of such assistants
to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, upon requisition
by the said supervisors shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars
($5,000) in any one year. In Washington County the Supervisors of Elec-
tions shall appoint a clerk who shall receive an annual salary of not less
than six hundred dollars ($600) per annum, which salary 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 Elec-
tions, 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 assistants 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) in any one year. The salary of the clerk and the compensa-
tion of the temporary assistants shall be payable by the County Commis-
sioners of Washington County.

The clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Wicomico County
shall receive an annual salary of three hundred dollars ($300) payable on
the order of the County Commissioners of Wicomico County in equal
quarterly installments, in full payment of services rendered the Board of
Supervisors of Elections of Wicomico County; provided, however, 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 commen-
surate with such special services rendered.

Judges and Clerks of Election.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 7. 1924,
ch. 426, sec. 7. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 8.

9. In the year 1938 the Board of Supervisors of Elections in the City
of Baltimore shall before the first day of July, select for each election
precinct in said city four judges of election, and before the fifteenth day