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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Specimen
ballots to
be printed.
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election precinct. They shall also cause to be printed on light
card board or heavy-sized paper, ten or more copies of the form
of the ballot provided for each voting place at each election
therein, which shall be called "specimen ballots," and the same
shall be furnished with the other ballots prepared for each
voting place. On the morning of said election the said super-
visors of elections shall cause to be conspicuously posted in
each polling place, said cards of instruction and fac-simile
ballots, and one of said cards of instruction shall be affixed in
each booth or voting compartment, and the specimen ballots
shall be conspicuously displayed in said polling room and on
the outside of the building wherein said voting shall take
place. Not less than three of said cards and three of said
specimen ballots shall be posted outside the guard rails, and
not less than three of each of the same shall be securely and
conspicuously posted on the outside of the building in which
the polls are held, before the balloting begins, in such position
that the same may be easily examined by the public.
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Attorneys to
be employed.
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114B. The Boards of Supervisors of Election for the several
counties shall have power to employ an attorney, who shall
also be the attorney for the judges of election, whether acting
as such or as registration officers, to receive such compensation
as shall be allowed by the County Commissioners upon the
approval of the Circuit Court. In the city of Baltimore, the
Board of Supervisors of Elections shall biennially appoint
some practising member of the bar of Baltimore city to act
as general counsel for the said board and for the officers of
registration and judges of election appointed by them, in all
matters and proceedings pertaining to their duties, and to
appear for and defend the said judges of elections at the hear-
ing of all petitions which may be tiled against them as officers
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Salary.
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of registration under the provisions of this article. For his
services such general counsel shall receive an annual salary
of twelve hundred dollars, to be paid in equal quarterly instal-
ments by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. He may
be removed and other counsel may be appointed in his place,
at the discretion of said board, and whenever petitions filed
against officers of registration and pending before more than
one of the judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore city
at the same time, he may appoint, with the approval of the
board of supervisors, as many additional counsel as may be
necessary to assist him in trying said petitions, who shall each
be paid such sum, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars
in any one year, as he shall certify, with the approval of the
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