ART. 33] CONTESTED ELECTIONS. 28?

1896, ch. 202.

117. The boundaries of the election districts of the counties
and of the wards of Baltimore city shall remain as now estab-
lished by law, but before the first general registration held under
this article and before every subsequent general registration
next preceding a Presidential election, it shall be the duty of the
several boards of supervisors of elections to divide and establish
precincts in the said election districts or wards, as in the judg-
ment of said board shall best promote the convenience of voters;
provided that no precinct, upon the basis of the registry of
voters in use at the election in the next year preceding that in
which such precincts are divided and established, shall contain
over four hundred and fifty (450) registered voters in the city.
In dividing and establishing precincts in the city of Baltimore
the new precincts shall conform to the boundaries of the Legis-
lative and Congressional districts established by law. The pre-
cincts of each election district or ward shall be numbered from
one upward, consecutively. The boundaries of said precincts
shall be made known by advertisement in one or more news-
papers in said counties or city once a week for two successive
weeks before the first day of July in each year in which such
division is made.

Ibid

118. The board of supervisors of elections in the city of
Baltimore shall moreover, in every year in which such division is
made, cause to be prepared maps of said city, showing the
boundaries of the wards and precincts as established by said
board. They shall furnish a sufficient number of copies of such
maps to the officers of registration of each precinct, who shall
keep one or more copies of such maps conspicuously posted in
the offices of registration during their sittings, and the said board
shall furnish copies of such maps to any person who shall apply
for the same, and pay fifty cents for each map so furnished him.

Contested Elections.

Ibid.

119. All contested elections for Comptroller of the Treasury,
judge, clerks of the courts of law and registers of wills, shall be
decided by the House of Delegates, and the testimony shall be