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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of registration, but may have printed blanks for such purpose to

be paid for as a part of the necessary stationery of their office >

the sheriffs of their respective counties in this State shall each re-

ceive one dollar for every registry of voters delivered by them to

the judges of election in their respective counties; the necessary

expenses incurred by said respective officers of registration in any

county of this State for books, stationery, fuel, office rent, and

for publication of the notices and lists in such county which are

by this article required to be published shall be paid by the county

Expenses.

commissioners of such county; the like necessary expenses in-

curred in the city of Baltimore shall be paid by the mayor and

city council thereof; the accounts of the said respective officers

of registration shall be verified by vouchers and be subject re-

pectively to the approval of the mayor and city council of Balti-

more and of the respective county commissioners.

32. The board of supervisors of elections in the city of Balti-

more shall biennally appoint some practicing member of the bar

of Baltimore city as general counsel to the said board of super-

visors of elections in said city, whose duty it shall be to advise

and counsel the said board, the said officers of registration and the

To appoint
counsel—
his duties
and salary

judges of election appointed by the said board, in all matters of
law arising before them respectively; he shall also appear for and
defend the said officers of registration at the hearing of all peti-

tions which may be filed under the provisions of this article

against said officers of registration; and for his services shall re-

ceive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars to be paid by

the mayor and city council of Baltimore in equal monthly instal-

ments; the said board shall also have power to appoint additional

counsel to appear for and defend said officers of registration in

all cases brought against them as such officers, whenever in the

opinion of the said board it shall become necessary, whose com-

bined compensation to be paid by the said mayor and city council

upon written requisition made by the said board shall not exceed

fifteen hundred dollars in any one year; in the respective coun-

ties of this State it shall be the duty of the State's attorneys of

said respective counties in the same manner to advise and appear

for the officers of registration appointed to act in their re-

In the

spective counties and for the respective clerks of the respective

counties.

circuit courts for their counties; and the State's attorneys shall

be paid by the county commissioners of the several counties fifty

dollars per annum for such services; and said State's attorneys

shall prepare for publication the necessary notices to be given by

the registers in each and every year of the times and places of

the sittings of said registers.

33. It shall be the duty of the person or officers having charge

of the vital statistics of any city or county to furnish to the offi-

cers of registration of the election districts of the several counties