1510 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 934

and of the particulars thereof. Said several Boards of Super-
visors are hereby respectively authorized and directed to make
adequate provision for the performance of the duty imposed
upon them by this section, and the county commissioners of
the several counties and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more City shall pay the expenses incurred in the performance
thereof. Should said Board of Supervisors fail or neglect
to make the delivery by the time prescribed by this section,
it shall be the duty of the judge, designated beforehand by the
Supervisors, to take charge of the ballot box, as provided in
Section 78 of this Article, or of the judges of election of any
precinct of Baltimore City in which voting machines shall be
used, to immediately send to the Supervisors therefor, and
to obtain the same as soon as practicable, in order that the
election may be duly held, the cost hereby incurred to be paid
by the county commissioners or the Mayor and City Council
as the case may be as a part of the election expenses.

62. The judges of elections and each of them, shall have
authority to keep the peace and to cause any person to be ar-
rested for any breach of the peace, or for any breach of the
election laws, or any interference with the progress of an elec-
tion, or the canvass of the ballots or the ascertainment and
transcription of the votes recorded on the voting machines;
and it shall be the duty of all officers of the law present to
obey the order of any judge of election, and an officer making
an arrest by the direction of any judge shall be protected in
so doing as fully as if a warrant had been issued to him to
make such arrest.

63. The polling places shall be opened by the judges of
election in Baltimore City at 6 o'clock A. M. and in the coun-
ties at 7 o'clock A. M., and shall be kept open in Baltimore
City until 6 o'clock P. M. and in the counties until 7 o'clock
P. M. of the same day, when they shall be closed; provided,
however, that the Supervisors of Elections in any county may
provide that all or any of the polling places in such county
may be opened not earlier than 6 o'clock A. M. and not later
than 8 o'clock A. M. If any judge or clerk shall not be pres-
ent at the expiration of fifteen minutes after the time for the
opening of the polls the judge or judges present shall fill the
place of the absent judge or clerk by appointing in his stead a
person of the same political party as the absentee. One of
the judges shall administer to such substitute the oath required
of the judge or clerk originally appointed. After the opening
of the polls no judge or clerk shall absent himself therefrom
until all the ballots cast shall have been counted and the re-
turns completed. If in case of absolute necessity, any judge
or clerk in attendance shall be compelled to absent himself,