HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 853
CHAPTER 651.

(House Bill 737)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 16
of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Elections", sub-title "Judges and Clerks of
Election", relating to the publication of notice of registra-
tion, revision and elections in certain counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 16 of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Elections", sub-title "Judges
and Clerks of Election", be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

16. Said Boards of Supervisors shall give ten days' notice
of the time and place of registration, and of revision thereof,
and of elections in each precinct of such county or city, by
handbills set up in the most public places in such precinct, and
also in the counties, by advertisements in two newspapers (one
of which newspapers, if possible, shall be of opposite political
faith from that of the majority of said supervisors) of general
circulation therein, except in Howard County, where the
Supervisors of Elections may publish in one newspaper the
notice above required, and in the City of Baltimore, by adver-
tisement in all the daily newspapers which will publish the
same at their current rate of advertising. Provided, however,
that in counties having a population of less than 15, 000, by the
United States Census of 1940, the Board of Supervisors of
Elections of such counties may publish such notices in such
newspaper or newspapers as said Board shall designate. And
the Sheriff of Baltimore City and of each county shall no
longer publish such notices of election, but in Howard County
the Sheriff shall set up the handbills hereinbefore referred to,
which handbills the Board of Supervisors shall have made up
and give to the Sheriff for the purpose of setting them up.
Said Board shall make all necessary rules and regulations not
inconsistent with this Article, with reference to the registra-
tion of voters and the conduct of elections, and they shall have
charge of and make provision for all elections, general, special,
local, municipal, State and county, and for all others of every
description, to be held in such city or county, or any part
thereof, at any time; all questions shall be decided by a ma-
jority of the Board, unless otherwise expressly provided in
this Article; provided, however, that in any incorporated city
or town in this State (other than the City of Baltimore) in
which the municipal or charter elections thereof are now regu-
lated by the Public Local Laws of the State, the conduct of