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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 regis-
tered voters in the city. In dividing and establishing precincts
in the city of Baltimore, the new precincts shall conform to the
boundaries of the legislative and congressional districts estab-
lished by law. The precincts of each ward shall be numbered
from one upward, consecutively. The boundaries of said pre-
cincts shall be made known by advertising in one or more
newspapers in said city once a week for two successive weeks
before the first day of July in each year in which such division
is made. Such additional books of registry and such copies
of the original books of registry of the year 1903, as are pro-
vided by the said board of supervisors of elections under the
provisions of this section, and the original books of registry of
Baltimore city for the year 1903, shall be used at the general
elections to be held in the city of Baltimore in said years 1904
and 1905.

1901, ch. 10, sec. 117 A.

125. As soon after the passage of the act of 1901, chapter 10,
viz., April 1, 1901, as shall be reasonably practicable, it shall
be the duty of the boards of supervisors of elections of the
several counties to examine the boundaries of the -several elec-
tion districts and election precincts in their respective counties,
and whenever, in their judgment and discretion, it shall be
expedient for the convenience of the voters to subdivide any of
said election districts or election precincts having a number
of voters in excess of six hundred, they are hereby empowered
and authorized to make such subdivisions, and to establish the
boundaries of such subdivisions in such way as to facilitate
and expedite the casting of their ballots by the voters thereof,
either by a designation of an entirely new and different polling
place, or by providing for two separate polling places at or near
the former polling place. Whenever, in the exercise of the
discretion conferred upon the several boards of supervisors of
elections by this section, they shall subdivide any election dis-
trict or election precinct, they shall appoint officers of registra-
tion and judges and clerks of election therefor, as in this article
provided, who shall have all the powers, perform all the duties,
be subject to all the responsibilities and be liable to all the
penalties prescribed in this article for officers of registration,
judges and clerks of election. All the members of the boards of