172 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 95

shall select for each election precinct in said city in which
paper ballots are used two clerks of election, taking two of
such judges and one of such clerks from each of the two lead-
ing political parties of the State, and shall not in said year
1939 or thereafter select or appoint any clerks of election for
any precinct in which voting machines are used. Said judges
and clerks so selected in the year 1939 shall serve until July
31, 1942, and their successors shall be selected before August
1, 1942, and biennially thereafter. The Boards of Supervisors
in the several counties, in the year nineteen hundred and
twenty-four, and biennially thereafter for their respective
counties, shall select, before the first day of July, two judges
of election, and before the fifteenth day of September, two
more judges of election and two clerks for each election dis-
trict in their respective counties, or, where a district is divided
into voting precincts, for each voting precinct in such district,
taking one of such judges and one of such clerks, in making
each such selection and for each such voting precinct or dis-
trict, from each of the two leading political parties of the
State, so that such parties shall be equally represented at all
times among said election officers. It shall not be necessary
to appoint new or special judges or clerks of election for any
special election; but the judges and clerks appointed under
this Article for the preceding election shall discharge the
duties of said judges and clerks of election, respectively,
within their several precincts or districts wherein such elec-
tion shall be held. Each judge and each clerk must be a legal
voter residing in the precinct or district, as the case may be,
for which he is selected, a man of good capacity and character,
able to speak, read and write the English language, and
skilled in the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, not
holding any other public office or employment, and not a can-
didate for any office at the next election; provided, that in
the City of Baltimore whenever all three supervisors shall file
in their office a sworn statement in writing that suitable per-
sons cannot, in their judgment be secured in any particular
precinct for some of the offices to be filled, such offices may in
such cases be filled by persons otherwise qualified residing in
another precinct of the same ward.

10. Each person selected as judge or clerk by the Board
of Supervisors shall be promptly notified of the fact of his
selection, with directions to appear within the time fixed
in the notice before the board for the purpose of examina-
tion; and if, upon examination, he is found qualified, he shall,
unless excused by the supervisors for good cause, be ap-
pointed by the supervisors and shall be bound to serve as