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provided. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners
of the several counties and of the mayor and city council of
the city of Baltimore to allow the reasonable use of the public
buildings in their respective counties and in said city by the
election supervisors thereof, and to light and heat the same
for such use, and in all proper ways to facilitate them in the
discharge of their duties as such supervisors.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 6. 1898, ch. 356. 1902, ch. 296.

6. The board of supervisors of elections of the several
counties may have clerks, with the consent of the county com-
missioners, for their respective counties, at such compensation
as the said county commissioners may fix. The supervisors
of elections of the city of Baltimore shall have a clerk at a
salary of two thousand dollars and a messenger at a salary of
eight hundred dollars per annum. The said clerks, and, in the
city of Baltimore, the said messenger shall be appointed by
the respective boards of supervisors and shall be removable by
them in their discretion. In Baltimore city the clerk and
messenger with the approval of the supervisors shall from time
to time secure such temporary assistance as may be necessary
for the proper transaction of the buisness of the office, but the
compensation of such assistants to be paid by the mayor and
city council of Baltimore upon requisition by the said super-
visors shall not exceed the sum of three thousand five hundred
dollars in any one year.

Judges and Clerks of Election.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 7.

7. In each year the board of supervisors of elections in the
city of Baltimore shall select before the first day of July four
judges of election; and before the fifteenth day of September
two clerks for each election precinct in said city taking two of
such judges and one of such clerks from each of the two lead-
ing political parties of the State. The boards of supervisors
in the several counties, in each year in which an election in
November is to be held in their respective counties, shall
select, before the first day of July, two judges of election, and,
before the fifteenth day of September, two more judges of
election and two clerks for each election district in their respec-
tive counties or, where a district is divided into voting pre-
cincts, for each voting precinct in such district taking one of
such judges and one of such clerks in making each such