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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

perform the duties hereinafter set forth, and shall receive the
sum of ten dollars for his service during his term of office, to
be paid by the mayor and aldermen of Frederick; in case of
a vacancy occurring in said board when the Legislature is not
in session such vacancy shall be tilled by the Governor. It
shall be the duty of said board, not later than the fourth
Wednesday in May, in each year, to appoint three persons for
each aldermanic district of said city of Frederick, residents in

Judges of
election.

and voters of such aldermanic district, who or a majority of
whom shall be judges of election for such aldermanic district
from the time of their appointment and until a new appoint-
ment shall have been made; and it shall be the duty of said board,
in making the appointments of such judges of election, to select
at least one of the said judges for each aldermanic district

Vacancies.

from among those of the leading political parties different
from themselves or a majority of themselves; if any of said
judges shall die, resign or remove out of the aldermanic dis-
trict for which be was appointed, or become otherwise, in the
opinion of said board, disqualified to act as such judge of elec-
tion, then the board of supervisors of election shall appoint a
person as judge for the aldermanic district in which each
vacancy may occur; the said board of supervisors of election
shall record every appointment so made in a book to be kept
by them for that purpose, and shall make out a warrant for
such appointment, and shall within two days thereafter deliver
unto a city constable of the city of Frederick, under the pen-
alty of fifty dollars, who shall deliver such warrant to the
person appointed as such judge of election or leave the same at
his place of abode within two days next after the delivery of
each of said warrants to him, under the penalty of fifty dollars ;
said board of supervisors of elections shall also appoint such
clerks or other officers of election as are now or may be here-
after required by law. The compensation for each of said
judges of election shall be three dollars for each election and
no more.

Clerks.

270 C. The said board of supervisors shall appoint, two clerks,
being above the age of twenty-one years, to enter the names of
voters separately and plainly on the books provided for the
purpose; and if any clerk so appointed shall neglect or refuse
to act, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars.

Failure of
judge to
attend.

270 D. Any judge of election appointed under the provis-
ions of this article, who shall not attend at the time appointed
for holding any election in his aldermanic district, shall forfeit
fifty dollars for every such neglect, unless prevented by sick-