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for as and for the purpose provided in this Act; and if, at said
election, the number of ballots cast upon said question and
reading "Against the School and Road Bond Issue" shall ex-
ceed the number of ballots cast upon said question and reading
"For the School and Road Bond Issue, " then the provisions of
this Act shall be void and inoperative, and no part of said loan
shall be negotiated, and said bonds shall not be issued; and said
election shall be held under the direction of the Supervisors of
Election of Carroll County, and shall in all respects be held and
conducted in conformity with the provisions of the General
Laws of the State of Maryland pertaining to elections in said
State; except that for said special election the Board of Super-
visors shall select and appoint two judges of election and two
clerks of election for each voting precinct in said county, and
said judges and clerks shall be selected without any reference to
the political affiliation of said persons so selected and appointed
judges and clerks for said special election, provided that said
persons so selected and appointed as judges and clerks for said
special election shall possess all other qualifications required of
such judges and clerks of election by the provisions of the Gen-
eral Election Laws of the State of Maryland; and said Board
of Supervisors of Election shall, not less than thirty days be-
fore the said special election, notify and secure the acceptance
of their appointments by said persons so selected and appointed
as judges and clerks of said special election; and the said
Board of Supervisors shall give notice of the names of all such
judges and clerks, and in every case the residents and precincts,
for which they are selected, by causing the same to be published
once in one week, before the 8th day of May, 1922, in two
weekly newspapers published in Carroll County, one of which
shall be of the opposite political faith from the majority of
said supervisors; and on the day of said special election, the
polls shall open at eight o'clock A. M. and close at six o'clock
P. M.; and the said Board of Supervisors shall certify the re-
sult of said special election to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Carroll County, and the said Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Carroll County shall certify the same to the Board of
County Commissioners of Carroll County.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-