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selection, and for each such voting precinct or district from
each of the two leading political parties of the State, so that
such parties shall be equally represented at all times among
said election officers. It shall not be necessary to appoint
new or special judges or clerks of election for any election not
held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
whether general, special, local or municipal, and whether such
election be held in the whole State or in any county or part
thereof; but the judges and clerks appointed under this article
for the preceding November election shall discharge the duties
of said judges and clerks of election, respectively, within their
several precincts or districts wherein such election shall be
held. Each judge and each clerk must be a legal voter resid-
ing in the precinct or district, as the case may be, for which
he is selected, a man of good capacity and character, able to
speak, read and write the English language, and skilled in the
four fundamental rules of arithmetic, not holding any other
public office or employment, and not a candidate for any office
at the next election; provided, that in the city of Baltimore
whenever all three supervisors shall file in their office a sworn
statement in writing that suitable persons cannot, in their
judgment be secured in any particular precinct for some of the
offices to be filled, such offices may in such case be filled by
persons otherwise qualified residing in another precinct of the
same word.

1896, ch. 202, sec. 8.

8. Each supervisor shall have a veto upon the proposed
selection or nomination of any judge or clerk; and if in any case,
in consequence of such veto, the board of supervisors cannot
agree upon an appointment, then the supervisor or supervisors
belonging to the political party entitled to be represented by
the judge or clerk in question shall name three men who are
eligible, and from these the other supervisor or supervisors
shall select such judge or clerk.

Sudler v. Lankford, 82 Md. 142.

Ibid. sec. 9.

9. Each person selected as judge or clerk by the board of
supervisors shall be promptly notified of the fact of his selec-
tion, with directions to appear within the time fixed in the
notice before the board for the purpose of examination; and
if, upon examination, he is found qualified, he shall, unless
excused by the supervisors for good cause, be appointed by