PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1113

County, to serve at said special election and shall duly notify
them of their selection and appointment, said judges and clerks
shall qualify in the same manner as now prescribed by law for
the qualification of judges and clerks of election at the general
election held in Charles County, before the date of said special
election; one judge and one clerk in each of said election dis-
tricts shall be selected and appointed by said Supervisors of
Elections so as to bona fide represent each of the opposing sides
upon the question hereby submitted and in the selection and ap-
pointment of such judges and clerks the said Supervisors of
Elections, if required, shall make the same from a list of four
names from each of said election districts, as presented to them
by any organization which may be in the meantime effected to
represent said opposing sides of the matter in issue at said spe-
cial election. On the Tuesday succeeding said special election
one of the judges in each of said election districts, who shall
be designated by said Supervisors of Elections for the purpose,
shall convey the returns of said special election, the ballot
boxes, registration books and all unused ballots to the said Board
of Supervisors of Elections, who shall meet as hereinbefore pro-
vided on said Tuesday succeeding said special election, at ten
o'clock A. M., at La Plata, the County seat of Charles County,
for the purpose aforesaid. The said Supervisors of Elections
shall then and there tabulate and count up the returns as made-
by the said judges and clerks and proclaim the results by publi-
cation in two newspapers published in said Charles County
within ten days from the date of the canvass and tabulation
aforesaid; but if for any reason said proclamation of the result
aforesaid shall not be given or not given in the manner herein
prescribed, such failure shall not affect the validity of this Act
nor prevent the result of said special election from taking
effect. The said Supervisors of Elections shall also certify to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Charles County the result of
said special election, and he shall forthwith file and record the
same in his office. The judges and clerks of said special election
selected and appointed under the provisions of this Act shall be
paid two dollars per day, for the day or days in which they may
respectively serve and any judge or clerk who shall refuse or
fail to serve shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars
upon conviction before a Justice of the Peace of said County.
In case any judge or clerk shall fail to serve as such officer of
said election the officer or officers of said election who shall
attend shall be and is or are hereby empowered and directed to
fill the vacancy or vacancies by the appointment of a person or