ELECTIONS 1405

political faith from that of the majority of said supervisors) of general
circulation therein, except in Howard County, where the Supervisors of
Elections may publish in one newspaper the notice above required, and in
the City of Baltimore, by advertisement in all the daily newspapers which
will publish the same at their current rate of advertising. And the Sheriff
of Baltimore City and of each county shall no longer publish such notices
of election, but in Howard County the Sheriff shall set up the handbills
hereinbefore referred to, which handbills the Board of Supervisors shall
have made up and give to the Sheriff for the purpose of setting them up.
Said Board shall make all necessary rules and regulations not inconsistent
with this Article, with reference to the registration of voters and the con-
duct of elections, and they shall have charge of and make provision for all
elections, general, special, local, municipal, State and county, and for all
others of every description, to be held in such city or county, or any part
thereof, at any time; all questions shall be decided by a majority of the
Board, unless otherwise expressly provided in this Article; provided, how-
ever, that in any incorporated city or town in this State (other than the
City of Baltimore) in which the municipal or charter elections thereof are
now regulated by the Public Local Laws of the State, the conduct of such
municipal or charter elections shall continue to be so regulated as hereto-
fore and such Public Local Laws shall continue in force therein. The pro-
vision hereinabove contained in reference to handbills shall not apply to
Baltimore City or Washington County, nor, after the year 1940, shall the
provision for notice of the time and place of registration and of revision
thereof apply to Baltimore City or Washington County.

Act of 1896, ch. 202, did not repeal local act of 1894, ch. 533, relative to elections in
Annapolis. Judges of election must be controlled, however, in the execution of their
duties and in conduct of elections by former act, and they are subject to the penalties
provided thereby. Jones v. Monroe, 86 Md. 334.

This section referred to in construing Secs. 264-282. Norris v. Jackson, 172 Md. 685.

See sec. 212.

Registration.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1896, ch. 202, sec. 14. 1918, ch. 393,

sec. 15. 1937, ch. 95, sec. 16.

17. Each judge of election appointed in the City of Baltimore up to
and including the year 1939, and each of the two judges of election ap-
pointed before the first day of July in counties, as provided in Section 9,
shall also be an officer of registration in the district or precinct for which
he shall be appointed, and the judges so appointed when duly qualified
shall for their respective districts or precincts, collectively, constitute the
board of registry thereof. Said officers of registration, and each of them, in
addition to the power hereinafter conferred upon them as judges of election
shall have, during the respective times of the appointed sittings of said
board of registry, authority to keep the peace and to preserve order and
enforce obedience to their lawful commands at and around their places of
registration; to keep the access to such place open and unobstructed, to
prevent and suppress riots, tumult, violence and disorder, any violation of
this Article, and all other improper practices at and around their place of
registration tending to intimidation or to the obstruction of their work;
they may compel by summons or attachment the presence of witnesses
before them for any purpose connected with the duties of their office, and
may commit for trial any person committing at or around their place of
registration any breach of the peace or other offense forbidden by this