186 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 95

meanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be subject to the
penalties prescribed by Section 104 of this Article.

68. The judges of elections and each of them, shall have
authority to keep the peace and to cause any person to be
arrested for any breach of the peace, or for any breach of
the election laws, or any interference with the progress of an
election, or of the canvass of the ballots or the ascertainment
and transcription of the votes recorded on the voting machines;
and it shall be the duty of all officers of the law present to obey
the order of any judge of election, and an officer making an
arrest by the direction of any judge shall be protected in so
doing as fully as if a warrant had been issued to him to make
such arrest.

69. The polling places shall be opened by the judges of
election at 6 o'clock A. M. in the City of Baltimore, and shall
be kept open until 6 o'clock P. M. of the same day, at which
time the polls shall be closed, and in the counties the polling
places shall be opened at 7 A. M. and shall be kept open
until 7 P. M., at which time the polls shall be closed; except
that in Garrett, Washington, Carroll, Montgomery, Calvert
and Delmar District of Wicomico, the polling places shall be
open at 6 o'clock A. M., and in Talbot County and Dorchester
County the polling places shall not be opened until 8 A. M.
If any judge or clerk shall not be present at the expiration of
fifteen minutes after the time for opening the polls the judge
or judges present shall fill the place of the absent judge or
clerk by appointing in his stead a person of the same political
party as the absentee. One of the judges shall administer to
such substitute the oath required of the judge or clerk orig-
inally appointed. After the opening of the polls no judge or
clerk shall absent himself therefrom until all the ballots cast
shall have been counted and the returns completed. If, in
case of absolute necessity, any judge or clerk in attendance
shall be compelled to absent himself, he shall appoint some
fit person of the same political party with himself to act in
his stead until his return, having first administered to such
substitute the same oath as he himself has taken. Blank
forms for the appointment of the substitute judges and clerks
and the oath aforesaid shall be supplied by the Supervisors,
and the oath when administered shall be preserved and re-
turned by the judges to the supervisors. The appointment and
swearing in of all such substitutes and the reason therefor,
and the time when such substitute began and ceased to serve
shall be noted by the judges in the poll books of the precinct
or on loose-leaf pages inserted in the binders containing the
precinct cards; such substitute shall cease to act whenever the
judge or clerk in whose stead he was appointed shall be present.