FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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161 MM. It shall be the duty of the said board of super-

visors of election to provide for each of the polling places,

Books for

two books for the use of the election clerks in keeping the

Clerks

account of the votes ; said books shall be in the form now in

use for the purpose, except that they shall, have in addition

at least one parallel column in the left hand margin, in

which it shall be the duty of the election clerks to place

numbers consecutively against the name of each voter whose

vote shall be recorded and placed in the ballot box, so that

the voters who have voted shall be numbered one, the next

two, and so on to the end.

161 NN. It shall be the duty of the said board of super-

visors of elections at the same time and in the same manner

that they make the appointment of judges of election, and

Ballot
Clerks.

from persons having the same qualifications as those pre-

scribed by law for said judges, to appoint two ballot clerks

for each ward ; each one of the said supervisors of elections

shall have a vote upon 'the purposed selection or nomina-

tion of any election clerk, and if in any instance in conse-

quence of such vote the board cannot agree upon such ap-

pointment, then the names of three persons who are eligible

shall be submitted for selection for election clerks by the

supervisor or supervisors of elections belonging to the lead-

ing political party entitled to be represented by such elec-

tion clerk, and out of said three names the other supervisor

or supervisors representing the other leading political party

of the State, shall select the name of such election clerk, if

otherwise eligible, who, when so selected, shall be appointed

the ballot-clerk and shall serve, unless removed by said

bpard of supervisors of election so there shall be two ballot-

clerks for each voting place, and said ballot-clerks shall

hold their office for the same period as the judges of elec-

tion ; and one of the said ballot-clerks shall be selected from

each of the two different parties which polled the largest

number of votes at the last preceding general election ; the

compensation of the ballot-clerks shall be the same as that

of judges of election ; before proceeding to act, they shall

take and subscribe au oath or affirmation, if they be con-

scientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, in the following :

"I will not attempt to ascertain, save in cases and in the

Oath

manner in which I am authorized by law to do, for what can-

didate or candidates any person shall vote or have voted,

or how any person shall vote or has voted on any question

which may be or may have been submitted to the vote of

the people of Hagerstown, and if such knowledge shall be

acquired by nie in the performance of my duty, I will not

directly or indirectly by word or act divulge or reveal the

same, or aid in doing so, save when I may be required to do