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oath required of the judge or clerk originally 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 shall be com-
pelled 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 sub-
stitute 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 Super-
visors, and the oath when administered shall be preserved
and returned by the judges to the supervisors. The ap-
pointment and swearing in of all such substitutes and the
reason therefor, arid 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.

CHAPTER 141.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
61 and 62 of Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Clerks
of Courts, " sub-title "Clerks of Circuit Courts, " provid-
ing for alphabetical indexes of certain records.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 61 and 62 of Article 17 of the
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Edi-
tion of 1924, title "Clerks of Court, " sub-title "Clerks of
Circuit Courts, " be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

61. They shall make a full and complete general alpha-
betical index (unless the same shall have already been
done) in a book or books, well bound for that purpose, of
all deeds, mortgages, bills of sale, short assignments of
mortgages, and other conveyances of record in their respec-