HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 987

Court of competent jurisdiction, to keep the same for any
longer period.

239L. Contests concerning registration, voting or the
validity of any ballot under this sub-title shall be decided
by the Board having jurisdiction of the matter. No regis-
tration shall be denied and no ballot. rejected except by the
unanimous vote of said Board. Any candidate or Absentee
Resident aggrieved by any decision or action of said Board
shall have the right of appeal to the Superior Court of Balti-
more City, if he so desires, to review such decision or action,
and jurisdiction to hear and determine such appeals is
hereby conferred upon said Court. Such appeals shall be
taken by way of petition filed with the said Court within
five (5) days from the date of the completion of the offi-
cial canvass by the Board of all the votes cast at any elec-
tion, shall be heard de novo and without a jury by said
Court as soon as possible. There shall be a further right
of appeal to the Court of Appeals, provided such appeal
shall be taken within five (5) days from the date of the
decision of the lower Court complained of, and all such
appeals shall be heard and decided on the original papers,
including a typewritten transcript of the testimony taken
in such cases by the Court of Appeals as soon as possible
after the same have been transmitted to said Court. Said
original papers, including the testimony, shall be trans-
mitted to the Court of Appeals within ten (10) days from
the taking of the appeal.

239M. The Governor shall appoint immediately after
the effective date of this sub-title, to the Board two sub-
stitutes, if necessary one of whom shall be of the same
political party as that of the majority of the supervisors
regularly constituting said Board, and the other of whom
shall be of the same political party as that of the minority
member of said regularly constituted Board. Before ap-
pointing such substitutes it shall be the Governor's duty
to request the State Central Committee representing such
political party in Baltimore City, to designate candidates
for such substitutes in the same manner as is provided in
Section 1 of this Article; and, if the Governor shall see
fit not to appoint any one of the persons so designated, he
shall file his reasons for not doing so, and shall appoint
from another list of names submitted to him, as provided
in said Section 1. In the event of the temporary or perma-
nent incapacity from any cause of one of the regular mem-
bers of said Board, the substitute, who is of the same
political party as the one so incapacitated, shall serve in
his place until such incapacity shall have terminated, and