ART. 33] POWERS AND DUTIES OF JUDGES. 1041

and upon conviction therefor shall be subject to the penalties
prescribed by section 94 of this article.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 55.

60. The judges of elections and each of them, shall have
authority to keep the peace and to cause any person to be
arrested for any breach of the peade, or for any breach of the
election laws, or any interference with the progress of an elec-
tion, or of the canvass of the ballots; and it shall be the duty
of all officers of the law present to obey the order of any judge
of election, and an officer making an arrest by the direction of
any judge shall be protected in so doing as fully as if a warrant
Lad been issued to him to make such arrest.

Ibid. sec. 56.

61. The polling places shall be opened by the judges at
six o'clock in the morning in the city of Baltimore, and at
eight o'clock in the morning in the counties, and in said city
shall be kept open until five o'clock, and in the counties until
six o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, at which time
the polls shall be closed. If any judge or clerk shall not be
present at the expiration of fifteen minutes after the time for
opening the polls the judge or judges present shall fill the
place of such absent judge or clerk by appointing in his stead
a person of the same political party as the absentee. One of
the judges shall administer to such substitute the oath required
of the judge or clerk originally appointed. After the opening
of the polls no judge or clerk shall absent himself therefrom
until all the ballots cast shall have been counted and the
returns completed. If, in case of absolute necessity, any judge
or clerk in attendance shall be compelled to absent himself, he
shall appoint some fit person of the same political party with
himself to act in his stead until his return, having first admin-
istered to such substitute the same oath as he himself has
taken. Blank forms for the appointment of substitute judges
and clerks and the oath aforesaid shall be supplied by the
supervisors, and the oath, when administered, shall be pre-
served and returned by the judges to the supervisors. The
appointment and swearing in of all such substitutes and the
reason therefor, and the time when such substitutes began and
ceased to serve shall be noted by the judges in the poll-book
of the precinct; such substitute shall cease to act whenever
the judge or clerk in whose stead he was appointed shall be
present.