368 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

the United States, or of the State of Maryland, or of the city of
Baltimore, to act as judges of election in each of the voting pre-
cincts of said city, two of whom shall always be selected from
the two leading political parties of the State, one from each of such
parties. The said persons so selected to act as judges must be men
of good repute and character, who can speak, read and write the
English language, and are skilled in the four fundamental rules
of arithmetic, and they must be of good understanding and capa-
ble. They must also be legal voters and residents of the voting
precincts for which they are so selected to act as judges. Having
selected the said persons for appointment as judges, it shall be
the duty of said board of supervisors to publish their names twice
in three daily newspapers published in Baltimore city not less
than six weeks before the election for which they shall be selected
to act, to the end that public opportunity may be given to ex-
amine into and investigate their qualifications and fitness to act as
such judges. The said board of supervisors, for two weeks after
such publication of said names, shall receive and carefully con-
sider all complaints in writing preferred against their fitness and
qualifications, and shall substitute in the place of any of said per-
Bons so selected to act as judges, who upon inquiry shall be found
to be unfit or disqualified, or who for satisfactory reasons shall be
excused from serving, other persons possessing the qualification
hereinbefore prescribed, whom they shall in like manner have
full power to remove, if deemed by them to be unfit for any
cause. When all complaints shall have been considered and
acted upon, and all applications to be excused shall have been
disposed of, all of which, shall be done within two weeks from
the first publication of the list as hereinbefore provided, the said
board shall prepare a complete and revised list of said persons
finally selected by them to act as judges at the succeeding elec-
tion, and shall promptly notify them of their appointment, desig-
nating in said appointment one of said persons as presiding judge.
Said corrected and completed list of said judges shall then at
once be officially published in at least four newspapers published
in the city of Baltimore, twice a week for two weeks, and upon
the day of election; and no changes in the said published list
shall thereafter be made except in case of vacancy occurring
from death, removal from the State, and physical or mental disa-