ART. 14.] HOWARD COUNTY. 865

aforesaid, upon receipting by such officer to the clerk aforesaid
for the same.

54. The Mayor shall, before the first day of March previous
to such election for Mayor and members of the City Council
of Ellicott City, appoint one proper and competent person and
a resident voter of said city, judge of election, who shall hold
his said office for the period of two years from said appoint-
ment, and each bona fide candidate for Mayor shall appoint one
judge of election, and said judges shall have the power to ap-
point one or more clerks, if necessary, who shall keep a record
of the persons voting and the persons voted for, and said judges
of election, immediately upon the closing of the polls for
Mayor and members of the City Council of Ellicott City, shall
proceed to count the ballots cast and ascertain the result of
said election, and the person receiving the greatest number of
votes cast for Mayor shall be declared Mayor of Ellicott City,
and the six persons receiving the greatest number of votes cast
for members of the City Council shall be declared elected mem-
bers of the City Council of Ellicott City.

55. The election for Mayor and six members of the City
Council shall be held at such place in said city as may be desig-
nated by the said Mayor on the handbills as hereinbefore speci-
fied, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of April, 1909,
and every second year thereafter, between the hours of 12
o'clock noon and 6 o'clock in the evening; such designation by
said Mayor shall be by handbills posted in at least five public
places within the corporate limits of Ellicott City, as now ex-
isting, at least two weeks before said election.

56. Said judges of election shall take and subscribe to the
oaths of office within thirty days after their respective appoint-
ments as aforesaid, before any justice of the peace for Howard
county, which justice shall receive as compensation for taking
said oath the amount now allowed by law for the taking of
oaths before justices of the peace. In case of any vacancy or
vacancies among the judges of election mentioned as aforesaid,
by death or otherwise, after said first day of March, in such
year as aforesaid mentioned, said vacancy or vacancies shall at
any time thereafter be filled by appointment by the Mayor.

56A. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard county shall
deliver to the judges of election on the morning of the day of
said election, said book of registration, to be used at the polls
of election upon receipting for the same by said clerk.

56B. The duties of judges of election as heretofore named
shall be the same as the duties of corresponding officers of elec-