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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ties, who shall be men of approved integrity and capacity, and

none of whom shall hold office or employment under the govern-

ment of the United States or of the State of Maryland, and they

must not be candidates for office at the next ensuing election or

at any election within the term for which they or any of them

Board of
supervis-

were appointed, who shall be styled the board of supervisors of

ors of elec-
tions.

election of the respective counties, each of said supervisors shall

receive an annual salary of twenty-five dollars, to be paid by the

county commissioners of the respective counties, and shall hold

office for two years from the date of his appointment, and shall

exercise the powers and perform the duties hereinafter set forth;

in case of a vacancy occurring in either of said boards when the

legislature is not in session, such vacancy shall be filled by the

governor; it shall be the duty of each of the said boards not later

than the second Monday of October in each year, to appoint three

persons for each election district or election precinct of their

coun ty, residents in and voters of such election district or elec-

Judges of
election.

tion precinct, who, or a majority of whom shall be judges of

election for such election district or election precinct from the

time of their appointment and until a new appointment shall

have been made; and it shall be the duty of each of the said

boards in making their appointments of such judges of election

to select at least one of the said judges for each election district

and election precinct in their respective counties from among

those of the leading political parties different from themselves,

or a majority of themselves, if any of the said judges shall die,

resign or remove out of the election district or election precinct

for which he was appointed, or become otherwise, in the opinion

of the said respective boards, disqualified to act as such judge of

election, then the board of supervisors of elections in whose county

said vacancy may exist, shall appoint a person as judge for the

election district or election precinct in which such vacancy may

occur, each of the said boards of supervisors of elections shall

record every appointment so made in a book to be kept by them

for that purpose, and shall make out a warrant for such appoint-

Warrant.

ment, and shall within five days thereafter, deliver every such

warrant to the sheriff of the county, under the penalty of fifty

dollars, who shall deliver such warrant to the person appointed

as such judge of election, or leave the same at his last place of

abode within ten days next after the delivery of each of the said

warrants to him, under the penalty of fifty dollars; each of the

said boards of supervisors of election shall also appoint such

clerks and other officers of election as are now or may be here-

after required by law; said clerks or other officials to be ap-

pointed as provided in section one hundred and fifty-two, for

each of the election districts or election precincts of their

respective counties, being above the age of twenty- one years, re-

spectively, and of opposite political opinions, one from each of