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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

shall take the oath or affirmation prescribed by
the thirty-fifth article of the public general laws,
as amended by the act of the general assembly,
passed at the January session thereof, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, chapter three
hundred and seventy-four, repealing and adopting
a substitute for section nine, of said article, and
every clerk of election as soon as may be after his
appointment, and before he enters any vote on the
poll book, shall take the oath or affirmation pre-
scribed in the tenth section of said article thirty-
five of the public general laws; and the said judges
and clerks respectively shall likewise, make oath
or affirmation, well and faithfully to discharge the
duties by this article imposed on them, respectively,
or which may be assigned to them respectively, dur-
ing their official term by law, the said oath or affir-
mation to be administered by the board of police
aforesaid, signed by the parties making the same
and recorded among the proceedings of said board,
or in case of exigency to be administered by any
justice of the peace of said city, who shall certify
the same to the said board, with the signature of
the party attached which certificates shall be re-
corded as aforesaid.

Sheriff to give
notice of elec-
tions.

222. The sheriff of Baltimore city, under the
penalty of one thousand dollars, shall at least two
weeks previous to every election in said city,
whether federal, state or municipal, except special
elections otherwise provided for, hereafter to be
held in the said city, cause public notice to be
given by advertisement set up at the most public
places in each precinct of the several wards of said
city, and also by advertisement in all the daily
newspapers printed in the said city, of the time of
holding said election in the said city, but if from

Failure of
notice.

any cause said notice shall fail to be given, said
failure shall not effect the validity of the said elec-
tion, or of any election to be thereafter held, but it
shall be the duty of the several judges of election