FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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parties of the State, one from each of said parties, who

shall be men of approved integrity and capacity, and none

Supervis-

of whom shall hold office or employment under the govern-

ors of
Elections.

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

they must not be candidates for office at the next ensuing

municipal election in the city of Hagerstown or at any

municipal election in said city within the term for which

they or any of them were appointed, who shall be styled

the board of supervisors of election of the city of Hagers-

town ; each of said supervisors shall receive an annual salary

of ten dollars, to be paid by the Mayor and Council of

Hagerstown, 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 said board when the Legislature is not in ses-

sion, such vacancy shall be filled by the Governor ; it shall

be the duty of said board not later than the third Monday

of March in each year to appoint three persons f or each ward

of said city of Hagerstown, residents in and voters of such

Judge of

ward, who, or a majority of whom, shall be judges of elec-

Election.

tion for such ward from the time of their appointment and

until a new appointment shall have been made ; and it shall

be the duty of said board in making the appointments of

such judges of election to select at least one of the said

judges for each ward from among those of the leading

political parties different frdm themselves or a majority of

themselves; if any of the said judges shall die, resign or

remove out of the ward for which he was appointed, or become

otherwise, in the opinion of said board, disqualified to act

as such judge of election, then the board of supervisors of

election shall appoint a person as judge for the ward in

which each vacancy may occur ; the said board of super-

visors of election 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 appointment and shall within two

days thereafter deliver unto the Chief of Police of the city of

Hagerstown, under the penalty of fifty dollars, who shall

Penalty.

deliver such warrant to the person appointed as such judge

of election, or leave the same at his last place of abode

within two days next after the delivery of each of the said

warrants to him under the penalty of fifty dollars ; said

board of supervisors of elections such clerks or other officers

of election as are now or may be hereafter required by law.

The compensation for each of said judges of election shall

be three dollars for each election and no more.

161 B. The said board of supervisors shall appoint two

clerks, being above the age of twenty-one years, to enter

the names of voters, separately and plainly on the books

Clerks.