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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of Baltimore shall, at least twenty days before any
general election, appoint one or more persons if
they shall deem it necessary to act as Judges at
such election, and two or more counties may Ap-
point the same Judge or Judges of election, and
shall furnish the poll books and other matters ne-
cessary for the holding and conducting of said elec-
tion for their own county and the city of Baltimore
respectively, and it shall be the duty of said Judge
or Judges to keep separate the ballots and poll
books for each county or the Legislative districts
of the city of Baltimore, and in all other respects
said elections shall be conducted as provided for in
the Constitution and laws of the State, and when-
ever the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore city,
or the County Commissioners of the respective
counties, shall fail to appoint the Judge or Judges
as hereinbefore provided, or the Judges appointed
shall fail to act, then the voters present, or a ma-
jority of them, shall choose by ballot a person to
act as Judge of said election, who for that election
shall be vested with the same power and authority
as if he had been appointed by the County Com-
missioners or the Mayor and City Council of Bal-

Judges to
take oath.

timore city, the Judges of election appointed under
this act, shall take the same oath which is required
to be taken by other Judges of election under the
Constitution and laws of the State, before they
shall be qualified to act, and the certificate of such
oath signed by the person administering the same
shall be annexed to the polls.

Judges to be
designated.

6; That the County Commissioners or Mayor and
City Council ef Baltimore, at the time of appoint-
ing said Judge or Judges of election shall desig-
nate some Judge of election in said county or the
city of Baltimore to whom such returns shall be
made, and whose name and address shall accom-
pany the poll books, commission and other mat-
ters required to be furnished to said Judges.

Returns.

7. That the ballots, after having been counted
by the Judge, acting at the head quarters of the
regiment or company, shall by him be carefully
enclosed in an envelope and with the list of voters
or poll books, and the proper certificates annexed,
and forward the same at the expense of the county
or city, as the case may fee, by mail, to the address
of the Judge designated by the County Commis-