140                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                   [CH. 84

any election precinct or in any election district not divided
into precincts they shall appoint judges and clerks of election
therefor, as in this Article provided, who shall have all the
powers, perform all the duties, be subject to all the responsi-
bilities, and be liable to all the penalties prescribed in this
Article for judges and clerks of election. Whenever an addi-
tional polling place is provided for any such election precinct
or election district, it shall be the duty of the Board of Super-
visors of Election to cause an additional set or sets of books
to be prepared, containing the names of registered voters tran-
scribed from the original books. One set of books shall con-
tain the names of voters whose surnames begin with the letter
"A" down to and including those whose surnames begin with
the letter "J. " The other set of books shall contain the names
of registered voters whose surnames begin with the letter "K, "
down to and including those whose surnames begin with the
letter "Z. " One set of books shall be used in each of the polling
places designated as provided for in this section. All the mem-
bers of the Boards of Supervisors of the counties or the City
of Baltimore, as the case may be, shall sign their names to the
books which contain the names copied from the original books
for such polling places in the hands of said supervisors, and
shall duly certify that such sets of books so copied contain all
the names of the persons entitled to vote in such election pre-
cinct or district, such said certificate shall appear on the blank
line next following the last name in each letter of the alpha-
betical list of names in the new books so transcribed, and such
said certification shall be attested by the clerk of the respective
Boards of Supervisors. The law with respect to notice of the
location of polling places shall apply to those established under
the provisions of this section. It shall be the duty of the
Boards of Supervisors to locate the polling places in any one
precinct as close together as possible, so as to minimize any
inconvenience to voters. Provided, that the Board of Super-
visors of Elections of Montgomery County may, in its dis-
cretion, so divide the list of voters at any polling place in any
election district or in any precinct in any election district in
Montgomery County in such manner that each set of books
shall contain approximately the same number of names of
voters thereon and toward that end may adopt any division
of the first letters of the surnames of such voters which the
said Board of Supervisors of Election of Montgomery County
may deem necessary.