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bot County. Provided, further, that no person shall erect or
place a blind less than two hundred and fifty yards from the
property of any other person. No person shall place or set
any fish net nearer than fifteen hundred yards of any licensed
blind in Talbot County,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 305.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with Amendments Section 63
of Article 33 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Maryland,
Title "Elections," as amended by Chapter 1, Acts of
1920, Extraordinary Session.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 63 of Article 33 of Bagby's Annotated Code
of Maryland, Title "Elections" as amended by Chapter 1,
Acts of 1920, Extraordinary Session, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with Amendments so as to read as
follows:

63. The polling places shall be opened by the judges of
election at 6 o'clock A. M. in the City of Baltimore, and shall
be kept open until 5 o'clock P. M. of the same day, at which
time the polls shall be closed, and in the Counties the polling
places shall be opened at 7 A. M. and shall be kept
open until 7 P. M. at which time the polls shall be closed; ex-
cept that in Garrett, Washington, Carroll, Montgomery, Calvert,
Dorchester, Wicomico and Precinct No. 2 District No. 3 of Wor-
cester County, the polling places shall be open at six o 'clock A.
M. If any judge or clerk shall not be present at the expiration of
fifteen minutes after the time for opening the polls the judge
or judges present shall fill the place of the absent judge or
clerk by appointing in his stead a person of the same political
party as the absentee. One of the judges shall administer to
such substitute the oath required of the judge or clerk origi-
nally appointed. After the opening of the polls no judge or
clerk shall absent himself therefrom until all the ballots cast
shall have been counted and the returns completed. If, in
case of absolute necessity, any judge or clerk in attendance