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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

different from themselves, or a majority of themselves, if

any of the said judges shall die, resign or remove out of the

election district or election precinct for which he was

appointed, or become otherwise, in the opinion of the said

respective boards, disqualified to act as such judge of

election, then the board of supervisors of elections in whose

county said vacancy may exist, shall appoint a person as

judge for the election district or election precinct in which

such vacancy may occur, each of the said boards of super-

visors of elections 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

five days thereafter deliver every such warrant to the sheriff

of the county, under the penalty of fifty dollars, who shall

deliver such warrant to the person appointed as such judge

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

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

warrants to him, under the penalty of fifty dollars ; each

of the said boards of supervisors of election shall also

appoint such clerks and other officers of election as are now

or may be hereafter required by law ; said clerks or other

officials to be appointed as provided in section one hundred

and fifty-two, for each of the election districts or election

precincts of their respective counties, being above the age

of twenty-one years, respectively, and of opposite political

opinions, oue from each of the leading political parties

whose duty it shall be to enter the names of the voters

separately and plainly ou the books provided for that purpose.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 702.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

two hundred and seventeen of article twenty-three, of

the Code of Public General Laws, title " Corporations,"

sub-title "Religious Corporations," and to add an addi-

tional section thereto, to be amended section 217 A.

WHEREAS, doubts have been expressed, whether chapter

Preamble.

twenty -four of the acts of seventeen hundred and ninety-

eight, entitled " an act for the establishment of vestries for

each parish in the State," is still in force or was inadvert-

ently repealed by the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty ;

and whereas, the interests of the Protestant Episcopal