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ART. 33] JUDGES AND CLERKS OF ELECTIONS. 219
after the expiration of his term of service, and all persons so serv-
ing shall be exempt from jury duty during the term of their
service and one year thereafter. Any person so selected and
notified to appear for examination, who shall not appear before
the board as required, or shall refuse to serve, shall be fined not
less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dol-
lars, unless it shall appear that he was not qualified for such serv-
ice by reason of ill health, infirmity or old age. It shall be the
duty of the supervisors to notify the State's attorney of the
county or the city of Baltimore of the failure, refusal or neglect
of any person, and to require the State's attorney to institute pro-
ceedings for such penalty at the next term of court; the State's
attorney shall receive a fee of fifty dollars for every penalty
recovered by him, to be paid out of the sum actually recovered,
whether the proceedings for the recovery of such penalty shall
be instituted of his own motion or at the instance of said super-
visors.
1898, ch. 385.
9 A. The judges and clerks appointed by the board of super-
visors of elections for Garrett county shall not be required to
appear before the said board for the purpose of examination, nor
to be sworn in, as required by section 9 of this article, but the
said board of supervisors of elections for Garrett county, before
making appointments of any such judges or clerks, shall thor-
oughly inform themselves as to the qualifications of the parties
appointed, and shall not require their attendance before said
board for such examination, and shall appoint only such persons
as are known to them to possess the proper qualifications for the
position to which they are severally appointed, and the said per-
sons may be sworn in either by said board or by a justice of the
peace or notary public of said county, and when sworn in by a
justice or notary, shall file with said board a certificate of such
qualification.
1898, ch. 142.
10. After the judges required to be selected before the first
day of July are appointed, the board of supervisors shall imme-
diately and before the first day of August in each year give
notice of the names of all such judges, and after the other judges
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