234 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 219

Board to answer such questions under oath as may be deemed
necessary.

For the purpose of enabling persons to register in this
manner in Montgomery and Washington Counties, the clerks
to the Boards of Supervisors of Election of each of said
counties, and one person in each of said counties who shall
be appointed by the Governor in the same manner and on
the same terms and conditions as the Supervisors of Election
are appointed and who shall belong to the other leading
political party from that to which the clerk to the Board of
Supervisors shall belong, shall constitute a Permanent Board
of Registry for said counties, and the members of the Board
of Registry shall devote their entire time (except as herein-
after provided), to the duties of their office, which shall be
performed at the office of the Board of Supervisors of Election
or at such other places as may be designated by said Board
of Supervisors of Election, and which shall include the regis-
tering of voters, the change of party affiliations and the
transfer of voters; and such other duties as may be prescribed
from time to time by the Board of Supervisors of Election
such as the keeping of the records and files of the office, sending
out notices, etc. In case of the absence of one or both mem-
bers of said Permanent Board on account of illness or other
cause he shall designate some other persons of the same
political party to act in his place under the same conditions
and terms as in the case of absent judges of election and the
Supervisors of Election shall allow such persons Six Dollars
per day for each day served and their salaries shall be audited
and paid in the same manner as prescribed for salaries and
other expenses by Section 3 of this Article. The members of
the permanent board of registry shall take and subscribe the
same oath as is administered to the judges who act as boards
of registry for the several precincts. Each member of said
permanent board of registry for Montgomery County shall be
paid an annual salary of Two Thousand Four Hundred
(f2, 400. 00) Dollars, which shall be paid in equal monthly pay-
ments by the County Commissioners of said county, and each
member shall be paid the further sum of four hundred dollars1
(1400. 00) per annum, to be paid them in equal monthly install-
ments for the expenses incident to the operation of their auto-
mobiles.

The Board of Supervisors of Election of Montgomery County
may set up such supplemental Boards of Registry as, from
time to time, they may deem necessary to aid and expedite the
work of the Permanent Board of Registry, and which shall
include the registering the voters, the change of party affilia-
tion, the transfer of voters, and such other duties as may be
prescribed by the said Board of Supervisors of Election. These