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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any cause from serving shall be immediately
published not less than three times in each
of four daily newspapers in the city of Balti-
more, and the whole of said officers of regis-
tration shall be finally selected, appointed and
qualified not later than the first Monday in May
in each year, so that they may be ready to enter
upon the performance of their duties as officers
of registration on the second Monday of May in
each year, as provided by the act passed at this
present session, entitled "An act to amend the
act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chap-
ter twenty-two, entitled an act to provide for
the uniform registration of the names of all the
qualified voters of this state, and the several
amendments thereto enacted by the acts of
eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter one
hundred and thirty-five, and eighteen hundred
and eighty-four, chapter two hundred and sev-
enty-one, and eighteen hundred and eighty-

Power of
board.

four, chapter four hundred and sixty-seven."
Said board shall have power to remove any of
said officers of registration for misconduct, in-
efficiency or neglect of duty ; and vacancies
occurring amongst said officers of registration
by death, removal from the city of Baltimore,
disqualification from any cause, or removal by
the board of supervisors of election, shall be
promptly filled, and the names of their success-

Select Judges
of elections.

ors duly published by said board. It shall also
be the duty of said board of supervisors of elec-
tions, not less than two months before every
election to be hereafter held in the city of Balti-
more, to select three discreet and qualified per-
sons, no one of whom shall hold office or em-
ployment under the government of the United
States, or of the State of Maryland, or of the
City of Baltimore, to act as judge of election in
each of the voting precincts of said city, two of
whom shall always be selected from the two
leading political parties of the state, one from
each of such parties. The said persons so
selected to act as judges must be men of good
repute and character who can speak, read and
write the English language, and are skilled in
the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, and
they must be of good understanding and capa-