ART. 33] JUDGES AND CLERKS OF ELECTIONS. 217

as the said county commissioners may fix. The supervisors of
elections of the city of Baltimore shall have a clerk at a salary
of two thousand dollars, and a messenger at a salary of eight
hundred dollars per annum. The said clerks, and in the city of
Baltimore, the said messenger, shall be appointed by the respec-
tive boards of supervisors, and shall be removable by them in
their discretion. In Baltimore city the clerks and messenger,
with the approval of the supervisors, shall, from time to time,
secure such temporary assistance as may be necessary for the
proper transaction of the business of the office, but the compen-
sation of such assistant to be paid by the mayor and city coun-
cil of Baltimore, upon requisition by the said supervisors, shall
not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars in any one year.

» Judges and Clerks of Elections.

1896, ch. 202

7. In each year the board of supervisors of elections in the
city of Baltimore shall select, before the first day of July, four
judges of election, and before the fifteenth day of September,
two clerks, for each election precinct in said city, taking two
of such judges and one of such clerks from each of the two
leading political parties of the State. The boards of super-
visors in the several counties, in each year in which an election
in November is to be held in their respective counties, shall
select, before the first day of July, two judges of election, and
before the fifteenth day of September, two more judges of
election and two clerks for each election district in their respec-
tive counties, or, where a district is divided into voting pre-
cincts, for each voting precinct in such district, taking one of
such judges and one of such clerks, in making each such selec-
tion, and for each such voting precinct or district, from each
of the two leading political parties of the State, so that such
parties shall be equally represented at all times among said elec-
tion officers. It shall not be necessary to appoint new or special
judges or clerks of election for any election not held on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday in November, whether general,
special, local or municipal, and whether such election be held in
the whole State or in any county or part thereof; but the judges
and clerks appointed under this article for the preceding Novem-