HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 247

Election", relating to the appointment of Judges and Clerks
and providing that in certain cases in Calvert County
Judges and Clerks may be appointed to serve in districts or
precincts other than where they reside.

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and Clerks of Election", be and the same is hereby repealed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

9. In the year 1938 the Board of Supervisors of Elections
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 September, 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 elections,
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. The Boards of Supervisors in
the several counties, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-
four, and biennially thereafter for their respective counties,
shall select, 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 re-
spective counties, or, where a district is divided into voting
precincts, for each voting precinct in such district, taking one
of such judges and one of such clerks, in making each such
selection 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 districts 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, a man
of good capacity and character, able to speak, read and write