1072 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

Somerset, Talbot, Kent, Frederick, Garrett, Prince George's,
Charles, St. Mary's, Calvert and Anne Arundel counties.

1896, ch. 202, sec 114B.

123. The boards of supervisors of elections for the several
counties shall have power to employ an attorney, who shall
also be the attorney for the judges of election, whether acting
as such or as registration officers, to receive such compensation
as shall be allowed by the county commissioners upon the
approval of the circuit court. In the city of Baltimore the
board of supervisors of elections shall biennially appoint some
practising member of the bar of Baltimore city to act as general
counsel for the said board and for the officers of registration
and judges of election appointed by them, in all matters and
proceedings pertaining to their duties, and to appear for and
defend the said judges of election at the hearing of all petitions
which may be filed against them as officers of registration
under the provisions of this article. For his services such
counsel shall receive an annual salary of twelve hundred dollars,
to be paid in equal quarterly instalments by the mayor and city
council of Baltimore. He may be removed and other counsel
may be appointed in his place at the discretion of said board,
and whenever petitions filed against officers of registration and
pending before more than one of the judges of the supreme
bench of Baltimore city at the same time, he may appoint, with
the approval of the board of supervisors, as many additional
counsel as may be necessary to assist him in trying said peti-
tions, who shall each be paid such sum, not exceeding one hun-
dred and fifty dollars in any one year, as he shall certify, with
the approval of the board of supervisors, to be a reasonable
and proper compensation for their respective services; provided,
that the whole number of counsel retained at any one time,
including himself, shall in no case exceed the number of judges
then engaged in hearing such petitions.

Ibid. sec. 117. 1904, ch. 254.

124. 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 regis-
tration, or whenever in the judgment of the board of supervisors
of elections of Baltimore city it shall be deemed expedient, it
shall be the duty of said board to divide and establish precincts
in the said wards, as in the judgment of said board shall best