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to elections held by means of paper ballots including the
appointment of clerks.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 11, 1943.

CHAPTER 120.
(Senate Bill 204)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
286 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1939 Edition, title "Elections, " sub-title "Voting Ma-
chines, " sub-section "Montgomery County, " providing
for the custody, supervision and preparation of voting
machines in Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 286 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, 1939 Edition, title "Elections, " sub-title
"Voting Machines, " sub-section "Montgomery County, " be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments so as to read as follows:

286. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of Mont-
gomery County shall from time to time appoint a Custodian
and a deputy Custodian of voting machines whose duty it
shall be to prepare the machines to be used in the elections
to be held therein, and the deputy Custodian appointed by
the Supervisors shall belong to the other leading political
party from that to which the Custodian shall belong. Such
Custodian and deputy Custodian shall, under the direction
of the said Board, have charge of and represent the said
Board during the preparation of the voting machines and
perform such other duties as may be prescribed from time
to time by the Board of Supervisors of Elections. The
Board of Supervisors of Elections of Montgomery County
shall have custody of all voting machines used or to be used
in said county, and on some day or days during a period
not less than five (5) days or more than twenty (20) days
before any election, the Custodian and deputy Custodian,
the clerk of said Board, or such assistant clerks as the said
Board may deem necessary for the purpose, shall, in the
presence of at least two members of said Board having
opposite party affiliation, prepare the voting machines,
including such reserve number of machines as said Board