708 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 321
CHAPTER 321.
(Senate Bill 316)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
69 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1935 Supplement), title "Elections", sub-title "Ballots
and Ballot Boxes", as said Section was amended by
Chapter 95 of the Acts of 1937, eliminating Calvert
County from the list of Counties having exceptions as
to the time of opening the polls.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 69 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Elections",
sub-title "Ballots and Ballot Boxes", as said Section was
amended by Chapter 95 of the Acts of 1937, 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hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read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 6 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, Mont-
gomery and Delmar District of Wicomico, the polling
places shall be open at 6 o'clock A. M., and in Talbot
County and Dorchester County the polling places shall not
be open until 8 A. M. If any judge or clerk shall not be
present at the expiration of fifteen minutes after the time
for the opening of the polls the judge or judges present
shall fill the place of the absent judge or clerk by appoint-
ing in his stead a person of the same political party as the
absentee. One of the judges shall administer to such sub-
stitute the 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 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 him-
self 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 admin-
istered shall be preserved and returned by the judges to the