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pany; and all duly qualified electors of this State, belonging to
such regiment or company, who shall be on duty or in hospital
at or near such quarters on the day of election, may vote at
such poll.

9. Such polls shall be opened at nine o'clock in the morning,
and closed at five o'clock in the afternoon; provided, nevertheless,
that such election may be held or polls opened for the reception
of the votes of the duly qualified electors at any time within five
days thereafter, if from the emergencies or duties of the service,
such electors cannot exercise their right of suffrage on the day
appointed by law for any general election in this State.

10. The County Commissioners of the respective counties, and
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, shall, at least twenty
days before any general election, appoint one or more persons if
they shall deem it necessary to act as judges at such election,
and two or more counties may appoint the same judge or judges
of election, and shall furnish the poll books and other matters
necessary for the holding and conducting of said election for
their own county and the city of Baltimore, respectively; and
it shall be the duty of said judge or judges to keep separate the
ballots and poll books for each county, or the legislative districts
of the city of Baltimore, and in all other respects said elections
shall be conducted as provided for in the Constitution and Laws
of the State, and whenever the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more city, or the county commissioners of the respective counties
shall fail to appoint the judge or judges as hereinbefore pro-
vided, or the judges appointed shall fail to act, then the voters
present or a majority of them shall choose by ballot a person to
act as judge of said election, who, for that election, shall be
vested with the same power and authority as if he had been
appointed by the county commissioners or the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore city; the judges of elections appointed
under this act, shall take the same oath which is required to be
taken by other judges of election under the Constitution and
Laws of the State, before they shall be qualified to act, and the
certificate of such oath signed by the person administering the
same shall be annexed to the polls.