ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

ble. They must also be legal voters and resi-
dents of the voting precincts for which they are
so selected to act as judges. Having selected
the said persons for appointment as judges, it

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shall be the duty of said board of supervisors to
publish their names twice in three daily news-
papers published in Baltimore city not less than
six weeks before the election for which they
shall be selected to act, to the end that public
opportunity may be given to examine into and
investigate their qualifications and fitness to
act as such judges. The said board of super-
visors, for two weeks after such publication of
said names, shall receive and carefully consider
all complaints in writing preferred against their
fitness and qualifications, and shall substitute
in the place of any of said persons so selected
to act as judges who upon inquiry shall be
found to be unfit or disqualified, or who for sat-
isfactory reasons shall be excused from serving,
other persons possessing the qualification here-
inbefore prescribed, whom they shall in like
manner have full power to remove if deemed by
them to be unfit for any cause. When all com-
plaints shall have been considered and acted
upon, and all applications to be excused shall
have been disposed of, all of which shall be done
within two weeks from the first publication of

Publish names
of judges.

the list as hereinbefore provided, the said board
shall prepare a complete and revised list of said
persons finally selected by them to act as judges
at the succeeding election, and shall promptly
notify them of their appointment, designating
in said appointment one of said persons as pre-

Prepare revi-

sed list.

siding judge. Said corrected and completed
list of said judges shall then at once be officially
published in at least four newspapers published
in the city of Baltimore twice a week for two
weeks and upon the day of election ; and no
changes in the said published list shall there-
after be made except in case of vacancy occur-
ring from death, removal from the state, and

Officially pub-
lished.

physical or mental disability, or by the unani-
mous vote of the board. Should any vacancies
occur from any of said specified causes, the said
board of supervisors shall promptly fill the same,
and publish as hereinbefore directed, the names

Fill vacancies.