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On the morning of the said election the said Supervisors of
Elections shall cause to be conspicuously posted in each polling
place said cards of instruction and fac-simile ballots, and one
of said cards of instruction shall be affixed in each booth or
voting compartment, and the specimen ballots shall be con-
spicuously displayed in said polling room and on the outside
of the building wherein said voting shall take place. Not less
than three of said cards and three of said specimen ballots
shall be posted outside the guard rails, and not less than three
of each of the same shall be securely and conspicuously posted
on the outside of the building in which the polls are held,
before the balloting begins, in such position that the same may
be easily examined by the public.
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Attorneys to
be employed.
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270 BBBBB. The Board of Supervisors of Election shall
have power to employ an attorney, who shall also be the attor-
ney for the judges of election, whether acting as such or as
registration officers, to receive such compensation as shall be
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Salary.
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allowed by the Board of Aldermen upon the approval of the
Mayor.
CONTESTED ELECTIONS.
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For what
offices, by
whom
decided.
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270 CCCCC All cases of contested elections of Mayor or
City Begister shall be decided by the Circuit Court for Fred-
erick County. Said Courts may adopt such modes of pro-
ceedings and adjudging costs in such cases as to it should seem,
most satisfactory, but the rules of taking testimony therein
shall be the same as those which regulate the taking of testi-
timony in other cases cognizable by said Court.
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Right of
appeal.
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270 D D D D D. If either party shall deem himself aggrieved
by the decision of said Court in cases of contested elections he
shall have a right to appeal to the Court of Appeals, as in
other cases, said appeal to be taken within five days from the
date of the decision complained of, and shall be heard and
decided by the Court of Appeals as soon after the transmis-
mission of the record as may be practicable, and the testimony
taken in such cases shall be sent up to the Court of Appeals
as part of the record.
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Copies of
papers
admitted as
evidence.
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270 EEEEE. The copies -of any papers recorded in any
office of record, attested under the nand and seal of the
recording officer, shall be admitted at all such trials in the same
manner as the originals would be if produced. The copies of
any other papers of a public nature, and remaining in posses-
sion of a public officer, and extracts from the poll books, under
the hand and seal of the public officer in whose custody they
are, shall be admitted as evidence.
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