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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Authority for

the call or notice is published, and the persons shall

notice.

be named therein who are to act as judges of the

election at each poll where such election is to be

holden, and the said persons shall be legal voters of

the ward for which they are named; said notice

shall likewise declare the qualifications of the per-

sons to vote at such elections, provided that such

prescribed qualifications shall not be inconsistent

with those expressed in this act.

SEC..... Be it enacted, That the notice required

by section one of this act shall be published in some

newspaper or newspapers of general circulation,

How published

printed in the city for which the election is called,

and shall be posted in at least three public places

in the ward in which such elections are to be held,

at least five days prior thereto.

SEC..... Be it enacted, That any voluntary politi-

cal association or party in the city of Baltimore

that shall elect to invoke the protection and subject

Elect to in-

itself to the provisions of this act, shall at the time

voke protec-

of publication of notice provided for in section one

tion.

of this act, declare that such election therein called

will be held in pursuance of and subject to the

provisions of this act, under the provisions of the

Code of Public Local Laws, relating to primary

elections; and in the event such notice last aforesaid

shall be published, and not otherwise, the provi-

sions of this act shall be applicable and in force in

respect to said election.

SEC..... Be it enacted, That at least three days

before the holding of any election, as provided by

section first of this act, the delegates to the city

convention of each ward of Baltimore city shall

appoint three persons to act as the judges of the

election, which judges shall be selected impartially

Appoint

from among the friends of each candidate seeking a

judges.

nomination as far as it is possible to do so, and two

persons as clerks of the election, which clerks shall

rep'resent, as nearly as possible, the interests of

opposing candidates, be above the age of twenty-

one years, and shall enter the names of voters,

separately and plainly, on books provided for that

purpose, at each place for the holding of such elec-

tion; and if at the place appointed for the holding

of any such election, and within ten minutes after

the time fixed for beginning the same, any one or