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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Treasurer to

of Maryland, That the treasurer be and he is hereby
directed and required, upon the warrant of the comp-

pay.

troller, to pay to William Coulbourn of I. the sum of

sixty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents, out of any

moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved March 20, 1884.

Chapter 113.

AN ACT to repeal section six of article thirty-five of

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

as repealed and re-enacted by chapter three hundred

and seventy-four of the acts passed at the January

session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to re-

enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section six of article thirty-five

of the Code of Public General Laws, title " Elec-

Repealed and

tions," as repealed and re-enacted by chapter three

re-enacted.

hundred and seventy-four of the acts passed at the

January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, be

and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted as

follows :

SEC. 6. At any election, federal, state or county,

hereafter held in this state, if any one or two of the

Judge of elec-

judges so appointed shall fail to attend at the place of

tion failing to
attend.

election at the time prescribed for opening the elec-

tion, the county commissioners, or a majority of them,

shall appoint a judge or judges in the place of the

judge or judges failing to attend, provided that one of

the three judges shall always be of a different politi-

cal party from themselves, or a majority of themselves ;

and in case the said commissioners, or a majority of

them, cannot be convened, or do not fill such vacancy

Who to make
appointment.

before the hour for opening the election, the remaining

judges or judge who shall so attend shall appoint a

judge or judges in the place of the judge or judges

failing to attend, the judge or one of the judges so ap-