FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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two weeks after such publication of said names shall receive

and carefully consider all complaints in writing preferred

against their fitness and qualifications, and shall substitute

in the place of any such persons so elected to act as judges,

who upon inquiry shall be found to be unfit or disqualified,

or who for satisfactory reasons shall be excused from serv-

ing, other persons possessing the qualifications hereinbefore

prescribed whom they in like manner shall have full power

to remove if deemed by them to be unfit for any cause.

When all complaints shall have been considered and acted

upon and all applications to be excused shall have been

disposed of, all of which shall be done within two weeks of

the first publication of the list, as hereinbefore provided,

the said board shall prepare a complete and revised list of

the persons finally selected by them to act as judges at the

succeeding election, and shall promptly notify them of their

appointment, designating in said appointment one of said

persons as presiding judge, said corrected and completed

list of said judges shall then at once be officially published

in at least five daily newspapers published in the city of

Baltimore once a week for two weeks, and upon the day of

election ; and no changes in said published list shall there-

after be made except in case of vacancy occurring from death,

removal from the State, and physical or mental disability,

or by the unanimous vote of the board. Should any vacan-

cies occur from any of said specified causes, the said board

of supervisors shall promptly fill the same, and it shall be

their duty in like manner to receive, consider and decide

upon all complaints submitted to them in writing, touching

the qualifications and fitness of the persons so appointed to

fill such vacancies, each and every person finally selected

and appointed as above provided to act as judge of election

shall be bound to serve as such judge for the term of one

year, and in case of refusal so to serve shall be liable, on

indictment and conviction, to a fine of one hundred dollars,

or to imprisonment for thirty days, and a failure to qualify

after receiving notice of his appointment by the time

specified in such notice shall be deemed a refusal within the

meaning of this section, and also a failure to attend any

election during said term, unless prevented by sickness,

shall be deemed a refusal within the meaning of this sec-

tion ; but any person having once served as judge of

election, shall not be bound to serve again for one year next

Clerk—
salary of

succeeding ; in order to enable them the better to perform

same.

the duties required of them the said board shall appoint a

clerk at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum,

who shall keep a regular record of all proceedings of said

board and preserve and file all papers submitted to them,

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