FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 194.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

two hundred and fifty-two of article four of the Public

Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore,"

sub-title "elections."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section two hundred and fifty -two of article

Repeal

four of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of

and re-en-

Baltimore," sub-title "Elections," be and the same is

actment.

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 252. The Governor, by and with the advice and

consent of the Senate, shall bi-ennially appoint three per-

sons, residents and voters in the City of Baltimore, two of

whom shall always be selected from the two leading politi-

cal parties of this State, one from each of said parties, who

shall be styled the board of supervisors of election in the

Supervisors
of election

City of Baltimore, each of said supervisors shall receive the

for Balti-

annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and shall hold

more City.

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

shall exercise the powers and perform the duties herein-

after set forth ; and in case of a vacancy occurring in said

board, when the Legislature is not in session, such vacancy

shall be filled by the Governor. It shall be the duty of said

board, not later than the first day of August in each year

to appoint three officers of registration for each of the pre-

cincts of said wards in the City of Baltimore, two of whom

shall always be selected from the two leading political par-

Officers
of regis-

ties of this State, one from each of said parties, and all of

tration

them shall be legal voters residing in the precinct for which

they are appointed, and shall be men of approved integrity

and capacity, and none of them shall hold office, or employ-

ment under the Government of the United States or of the

State of Maryland, or of the City of Baltimore, and they
must not be candidates for office at the next ensuing elec-

tion (on the Friday and Saturday) following the appointment

of said officers of registration, the said board of super-

visors of election shall publish, their names in all of the

daily newspapers published in the City of Baltimore, whose

owners will insert the same for a reasonable compensation,

to the end that ample public opportunity may be given to

investigate and determine any complaints that may be pre-

ferred to said board in writing, against their fitness and

qualifications to act as such officers of registration ; should

any such complaints be so preferred, it shall be the duty of

said board to examine promptly into the same, and remove