HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 315

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 69 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Elections, " sub-
title "Ballots and Ballot Boxes, " be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

69. 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;
except that in Garrett, Washington, Carroll, Montgomery,
Calvert, Delmar District of Wicomico and Precinct No. 2,
District No. 3 of Worcester County, the polling places shall
be open at six o'clock A. M., and in Talbot County and Dor-
chester County the polling places shall not be opened until
8 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 originally ap-
pointed. 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
shall be compelled to absent himself, he shall appoint some
fit person of the same political party with himself to act
in his stead until his return, having first administered to
such substitute the same oath as he himself has taken.
Blank forms for the appointment of the substitute judges
and clerks and the oath aforesaid shall be supplied by the
Supervisors, and the oath when administered shall be pre-
served and returned by the judges to the supervisors. The
appointment and swearing in of all such substitutes and the
reason therefor, and the time when such substitute began
and ceased to serve shall be noted by the judges in the poll
book of the precinct; such substitute shall cease to act
whenever the judge or clerk in whose stead he was ap-
pointed shall be present.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1935.

Approved: May 17, 1935.