EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 919

Dollars or be confined in the penitentiary of the State for not
exceeding one year or be both fined and imprisoned, in the dis-
cretion of the Court, and he shall be forever thereafter dis-
qualified from holding any office of profit or trust created un-
der this Article and from voting at any election in said City.
Section 59. The Mayor shall by publication in one or
more newspapers published in Crisfield at least ten days prior
to holding any such elections give notice thereof, stating the
object of said election and the time, place and hours of holding
the same. The Mayor shall at least three days prior to the
holding of any such elections appoint three persons, qualified
voters of said City, two of whom shall be of the majority party
or division of opinion, at such election, and one from the
minority or largest minority, to act as the judges of the elec-
tion, who before acting as such shall take oath in due form of
law before the Mayor or a Justice of the Peace of Somerset
County, to fairly and impartially perform the duties of judges
of said election. In case any of the persons so appointed as
judges shall fail to appear and qualify or open the polls at the
hour appointed therefor, or to perform any of the duties re-
quired of them as such judges and unless excused before the
time of opening the polls by the Mayor, then the Judge or
Judges so failing to qualify or to open the polls, or to perform
any other of the duties required of him or them, as such judge
or judges, or unless incapacitated by sickness, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction after indictments
shall be fined not less than $50. 00 nor more than $500. 00, and
be committed to the County Jail until fine and costs are paid,
or shall be both fined and sentenced to the House of Correction
for not less than three nor more than twelve months, at the
discretion of the Court. In case any or all of the judges so
appointed shall fail to qualify or be present at the opening or
to open the polls, then the Mayor shall at once appoint another
person or persons to act in place of the one (or of those) not
qualified or being present, and if the Mayor shall fail to ap-
point a new judge or judges as aforesaid, then the judge or
judges who is or are present shall appoint from the qualified
voters who are present some qualified judge or judges in lieu
of the one or more failing to be present or to qualify or to act
as aforesaid, and the judge or judges present may administer
the required oath to the judge or judges so appointed. And in
case that none of the judges are present at the time for the
opening of the polls at such election, then the qualified voters.