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each for their services. The compensation of such judges and
clerks, and all expenses to be incurred by said judges under this
sub-title of this article or otherwise, according to law, as well as all
expenses to be incurred by the said board of supervisors necessary
and proper for the performance of their duties as aforesaid, or in
execution thereof, including the cost of new registration books
for the officers of registration, whenever such new books shall be
necessary, shall be paid and recoverable from the mayor and city

council of Baltimore, and shall be provided for by said mayor
and city council by taxation or otherwise.

1880, ch. 340.

260. Each of the said judges and clerks, as soon as may be
after his appointment, and before proceeding to act at any elec-
tion, shall take the general oath prescribed by the sixth section of
the first article of the constitution, and also the oath prescribed
by the code of public general laws for judges and clerks respec-
tively, and shall likewise make oath well and faithfully to

discharge the duties by this sub-title of this article imposed on
him, or which may be assigned to him during his official term, by
law, the said oaths to be administered by the said board of super-
visors of elections in Baltimore city, or any one of said super-
visors, 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, who shall certify
the same to the said board, with the signature of the party
Attached, which certificate shall be recorded as aforesaid.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, BBC. 214.

261. On the morning of each day of election in said city,
and on the day preceding, if practicable, the judges of each
precinct shall give public notice by advertisement in all the daily

papers of the said city, the proprietors whereof shall be willing,
for reasonable compensation, to insert the same, of the places at

which the polls shall be held in their respective precincts.

Ibid. sec. 204. 1872, ch. 23.

262. At every election in the city of Baltimore, the polls shall
be open for the reception of votes from six o'clock A. M. until six