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(b) Members of the Commission shall be paid their neces-
sary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties
hereunder. The expenses of the Commission, including the
salaries of any employees, may be defrayed from any funds
under the control of the Board of Public Works. The Com-
mission may receive assistance, financial or otherwise, from
the United States or any departments, commissions or agencies
thereof in carrying out the purposes of this sub-title.

(c) The Commission is authorized and empowered to make
any and all rules and regulations deemed necessary or useful
to effectuate the carrying out of the provisions of this sub-
title, including particularly, but, without limitation, rules
and regulations governing the form, type, sizes of type, color
of absentee ballots, the arrangements of names of candidates
on said ballots, the location of Constitutional amendments,
referenda or other questions, if any, and all other necessary
matters concerning Absentee Ballots, ballot envelopes, return
envelopes, instructions and any other necessary forms. Dimen-
sions of the Absentee Ballot Envelopes and any other materials
shall be such that all balloting material can be conveniently
folded in a covering envelope not larger than 4 1/8 inches by
9 1/2 inches; and the weight of all balloting material, including
the ballot, instructions and envelopes, shall not exceed eight-
tenths of an ounce. If, however, it is impracticable to secure
paper, envelopes and other ballot material which will con-
form to the foregoing dimensions and weight, or if any Act of
Congress changes the aforesaid dimensions or weight, the
Commission is authorized to vary the same.

(d) The Commission is hereby granted the power, in its
discretion to authorize the use by the several Boards of
postage, including air mail postage, for the transmittal of all
ballot material to Absentee Residents and the return of the
return envelope, the ballot envelope and ballot by Absentee
Residents, including the power to use different kinds of
postage depending on the location of the Absentee Resident
and the time or times at which the ballot material is mailed.
The cost of any and all postage, so authorized, and used by
the several Boards, shall be paid by the State from any
funds under the control of the Board of Public Works and
the Commission and said Boards are authorized to arrange
with County Commissioners of any county and with the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the making of pay-
ments for such postage in the first instance and said County
Commissioners and Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
shall thereafter be reimbursed by the Board of Public Works
for said expenditure.

(e) The Commission is also authorized, in its discretion, to
permit the several Boards to designate the precinct and elec-
tion district or ward of the Absentee Resident on the Ballot