1226 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 591

empowered to borrow on the faith and credit of said county in
an amount not exceeding Six Hundred Thousand ($600, 000. 00)
Dollars and to issue bonds therefor for the purposes and in the
manner heretofore provided in this Act; and if, at said election,
the number of ballots cast upon said question and reading
"Against the School Bond Issue" shall exceed the number of
ballots cast upon said question and reading "For the School
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 Elections of Carroll
County, and shall in all respects be held and conducted in con-
formity 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 said Supervisors of Elections 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 affil-
iation 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 General
Election Laws of the State of Maryland; and said Supervisors
of Elections shall, not less than thirty days before the day fixed
for 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 Super-
visors of Election shall give notice of the names of all such
judges and clerks, and in every case of their several residences,
and the precincts for which they have been selected and appoint-
ed, by causing the same to be published once in one week before
the 19th day of September, 1927, in two weekly newspapers
published in Carroll County, one of which shall be of the oppo-
site 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
Supervisors of Elections shall forthwith certify the result of
said special election to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Carroll County as the results of other elections are certified to
said clerk under the provisions of the General Election Laws,
of the State; and the said Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll
County shall forthwith certify the same to the County Commis-
sioners of Carroll County.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1927.

Approved April 26, 1927.