ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and integrity and voters in and residents of the
territorial division in which they shall be ap-
pointed, who shall be termed supervisors of elec-
tion, and who shall be conservators of the peace
in their respective territorial divisions, and in-
vested with full power and authority to preserve
peace, order and quiet at said elections ; said
supervisors in their respective territorial divis-

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ions shall be charged with the special duty,
and are hereby required previous to the day for
said elections, to appoint and provide for each
election precinct therein a special force con-
sisting of not exceeding ten persons, to be
selected from the persons residing in the
territory proposed to be annexed, under the
command of a person also to be appointed
by them to be designated as captain, and the
said special force shall have the same power in
the premises as the police force of Baltimore city,
as conservators of the peace within the city
limits, and it shall be the duty of each member
of said special force to execute every warrant
and commitment which the said supervisors or
either of them, or the judges of election or either
of them, shall issue ; the sheriff of Baltimore
county shall not appoint any deputies of any of
said precincts ; said supervisors shall receive the
sum of five dollars each for each day of actual
service, not to exceed three day, and said special
force shall each receive three dollars for their
services on the day of said elections. The gover-
nor in appointing said supervisors shall select for
each territorial division one of the three persons
to be appointed therefor from among the voters
and residents of said territorial division known
to be opposed to city extension and annexation,
one thereof known to be in favor of city exten-
sion and annexation, the third to be selected at

Appoint and
provide spe-
cial force.

his discretion ; said supervisors, before entering
on the discharge of their duties, shall severally
take and subscribe before some justice of the
peace of the state an oath or oaths similar to the
oath or oaths prescribed to be taken by super-
visors of election in Baltimore city, and after the
day of election their office shall terminate ; for
any failure to discharge any duty imposed upon
him by this act the sheriff of Baltimore county

Oath to be
taken.