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substitute judges or clerks. In the oath to be administered in Baltimore
City to judges appointed subsequent to the year 1939, the word "a judge
of election" shall be substituted for the words "an officer of registration
and judge of election".

For a case involving the question as to whether or not registers had duly qualified
under act of 1865, ch. 174, see Hardesty v. Taft, 23 Md. 526. As to validity of act of
1865, ch. 174, see Anderson v. Baker, 23 Md. 531.

Cited but not construed in Carter v. Applegarth, 102 Md. 340.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 11. 1937, ch. 95,

sec. 13. 1939, ch. 458.

14. It shall be the duty of said boards of supervisors to appoint the
place of registration and also the polling place in each precinct of their
county or city and to cause the same to be fitted up, warmed, lighted and
cleaned. The places for registration and polling shall in all cases be upon
the ground floor of a building, the entrance to which is from the highway
or from a public street at least forty feet wide if in the City of Baltimore
and at least twenty-five feet wide if in the counties, in a room facing on
said street or highway and shall be as near the center of the voting popula-
tion of the precinct and as convenient to the greatest number of voters as
is practicable, and in no case shall a registration or election be held in any
building, or part of the building, used or occupied as a saloon, dram-shop,
poolroom, billiard hall or bowling alley, or communicating therewith by
doors or hallways. If no suitable place is found the supervisors shall pro-
vide one. Provided, however, that, after the year 1940, no places of regis-
tration shall be provided in the respective precincts of Baltimore City and
Washington County, but all the work of registration, transfers, etc., shall
be conducted in the office of the Board of Supervisors of Elections of said

City and Washington County.

The duty of supervisors of election is to provide a suitable polling place within
limits of each precinct; fact, however, that a polling room is located slightly within
lines of another precinct of same election district does not justify the rejection of
votes cast thereat. This conclusion is not affected by art. 1, secs. 1 and 5, of the
Maryland Constitution. Various irregularities in election held not sufficiently serious
to justify recanvass. Smith v. Hackett, 129 Md. 75.

This section referred to in construing sec. 174—see notes thereto. Brome v. Dorsey,
99 Md. 609.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1920, ch. 529. 1922, ch. 357.

15. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections of the
City of Baltimore and of the several counties, to use, wherever possible and
practicable, public buildings, such as school houses, fire engine houses, etc.,
for the registration and polling places. It shall be the duty of all public
officials who have charge of such buildings to place them or any of them
at the disposal of said Boards of Supervisors of Elections on the days of
registration and elections when application is made by the said Supervisors
of Elections for any of the above mentioned public buildings.

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. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 15.

1939, ch. 457.

16. Said Boards 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