LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

board of supervisors, to be a reasonable and proper compensa-
tion for their respective services; provided that the whole
number of counsel retained at any one time, including himself,
shall, in no case, exceed the number of judges then engaged
in hearing such petitions.

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117. The boundaries of the election districts of the counties
and of the wards of Baltimore city shall remain as now estab-
lished by law, but before the first general registration held under
this article and before every subsequent general registration
next preceding a Presidential election, it shall be the duty of
the several boards of supervisors of elections to divide and
establish precincts in the said election districts or wards, as in
the judgment of said board shall best promote the convenience
of voters; provided that no precinct, upon the basis of the reg-
istry of voters in use at the election in the next year preceding
that in which such precincts are divided and established, shall
contain over four hundred and fifty (450) registered voters in
the city. In dividing and establishing precincts in the city of
Baltimore the new precincts shall conform to the boundaries of
the Legislative and Congressional districts established by law.
The precincts of each election district or ward shall be num-
bered from one upward, consecutively. The boundaries of said
precincts shall be made known by advertisement in one or more
newspapers in said counties or city once a week for two suc-
cessive weeks before the first day of July in each year in which
such division is made.

Boundaries of
election dis-
tricts and
wards.

118. The Board of Supervisors of Election in the city of
Baltimore shall moreover, in every year in which such division
is made, cause to be prepared maps of said city, showing the
boundaries of the wards and precincts as established by said
board. They shall furnish a sufficient number of copies of
such maps to the officers of registration of each precinct, who
shall keep one or more copies of such maps conspicuously posted
in the offices of registration during their sittings, and the said
board shall furnish copies of such maps to any person who shall
apply for the same, and pay fifty cents for each map so fur-
nished him.

CONTESTED ELECTIONS.

Map of wards
and pre-
cincts.

119. All contested elections for Comptroller of the Treasury,
judge, clerks of the Courts of Law and registers of wills, shall
be decided by the House of Delegates, and the testimony shall
be taken in such cases in the same manner as herein prescribed
in contested seats of the Senate and House of Delegates.

For what
offices, by
whom
decided.