218 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

ber election shall discharge the duties of said judges and clerks of
election, respectively, within their several precincts or districts
wherein such election shall be held. Each judge and each clerk
must be a legal voter residing in the precinct or district, as the
case may be, for which he is selected—a man of good capacity
and character—able to speak, read and write the English language,
and skilled in the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, not
holding any other public office or employment, and not a candi-
date for any office at the next election; provided, that in the city
of Baltimore, whenever all three supervisors shall file in their
office a sworn statement, in writing, that suitable persons cannot,
in their judgment, be secured in any particular precinct for some
of the offices to be tilled, such offices may be in such case filled
by persons otherwise qualified residing in another precinct in the
same ward.

1896, ch. 202.

8. Each supervisor shall have a veto upon the proposed selec-
tion or nomination of any judge or clerk; and if, in any case, in
consequence of such veto, the board of supervisors cannot agree
upon an appointment, then the supervisor or supervisors belong-
ing to the political party entitled to be represented by the judge
or clerk in question shall name three men who are eligible, and
from these the other supervisor or supervisors shall select such
judge or clerk.

Ibid.

9. Each person selected as judge or clerk by the board of
supervisors shall be promptly notified of the fact of his selection,
with direction to appear, within the time fixed in the notice,
before the board, for the purpose of examination; and if upon
examination he is found qualified, he shall, unless excused by the
supervisors for good cause, be appointed by the supervisors, and
shall be bound to serve as such officer for the term of one year.
The supervisors shall keep books in which shall be written down
the names of all the judges and clerks so appointed, the date and
manner of notice to them to appear, and whether or not they
appear, and if appearing, whether they were appointed, rejected
or excused, and if rejected or excused, the reasons therefor. No
person shall be compelled to serve as judge or clerk for one year