994 ELECTIONS. [ART. 33

governor alone, shall appoint, in each and every county of the
State and in the city of Baltimore, three persons who shall
constitute and be styled "The Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tion of the respective counties and of said city." Said super-
visors shall be residents and voters in their respective counties
or in the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, and two of
them shall always be selected from the two leading political
parties of the State, one from each of said parties. They shall
be men of high character and integrity and of recognized busi-
ness capacity. Before appointing such supervisors of elections
the governor shall request the State central committees, repre-
senting each of the two leading political parties of the State
in each county and in said city, as the case may be, to desig-
nate at least four eligible candidates for the position of super-
visor of elections in their respective counties and in said city,
and the governor shall appoint one of the persons so designated
for any particular county or for said city, unless, in his judg-
ment, all of said persons shall be unfit or incompetent for said
position, in which case he shall file a written statement to that
effect with the secretary of State, setting forth such fact and
the grounds therefor, and thereupon he shall call upon the
said committee for the city or county, as the case may be, for
another list of six names and from said list and the original
list he shall make the appointment.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 2. 1902, ch. 296.

2. Each supervisor of elections of Baltimore city shall receive
on annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars and each
supervisor of elections of any of the counties of this State
shall receive an annual salary of one hundred dollars, which
salary may, in counties having more than fifteen polling places,
be increased by the county commissioners, in their discretion,
to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars.
These salaries and all other expenses incurred by them under
this article shall, upon their requisition, be audited by the
county commissioners of their respective counties or by the
comptroller of Baltimore city, as the case may be, who shall
pay the same by warrant drawn upon the proper officers of
their county or of said city.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 3.

3. Before entering upon the duties of their office said super-
visors of elections shall each take and subscribe the oath pre-