180 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 183

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 9 of Article 33 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, 1939 Edition, title "Elections, " sub-title
"Judges and Clerks of Elections, " be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

9. In the year 1938 the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions in the City of Baltimore shall before the first day
of July, select for each election precinct in said city four
judges of election, and before the fifteenth day of Sep-
tember, 1938, shall select for each election precinct in said
city two clerks of elections, said judges and clerks to serve
until July 31, 1939, and before the first day of August in
the year 1939 shall select for each election precinct in said
city four judges of election, and before the first day of
December in said year 1939 shall select for each election
precinct in said city in which paper ballots are used two
clerks of election, taking two of such judges and one of
such clerks from each of the two leading political parties
of the State, and shall not in said year 1939 or thereafter
select or appoint any clerks of election for any precinct
in which voting machines are used. Said judges and clerks
so selected in the year 1939 shall serve until July 31, 1942,
and their successors shall be selected before August 1, 1942,
and biennially thereafter. In Montgomery County in the
year 1943 or thereafter the Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions shall not select or appoint any clerks of elections for
any precinct or polling place in which voting machines are
used. The Board of Supervisors in the several counties,
in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and bi-
ennially thereafter for their respective counties, shall se-
lect, before the first day of July, two judges of election,
and before the fifteenth day of September, two more judges
of election and two clerks for each election district in their
respective counties, or where a district is divided into vot-
ing precincts, for each voting precinct in such district,
taking one of such judges and one of such clerks, in making
each such election and for each such voting precinct or
district, from each of the two leading political parties of
the State, so that such parties shall be equally represented
at all times among said election officers. It shall not be
necessary to appoint new or special judges or clerks of
election for any special election; but the judges and clerks
appointed under this Article for the preceding election
shall discharge the duties of said judges and clerks of
election, respectively, within their several precincts or dis-
tricts wherein such election shall be held. Each judge and
each clerk must be a legal voter residing in the precinct
or district, as the case may be, for which he is selected,