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county. The members of said Board of Registry shall take
and subscribe the same oath as is prescribed in Section 7
of this Article for judges of election and shall devote their
entire time to the duties of their office which shall be
performed at the office of the Board of Supervisors or
at such other places as may be designated by said Super-
visors, and which shall include the registration, transfers,
affiliation, or changes of affiliation of voters and such
other duties as may be from time to time prescribed by
the Board of Supervisors. In case of the absence of a
member of said Permanent Board on account of illness
or other cause, he shall designate some other person of
the same political party to act in his place under the same
conditions and terms as in the case of absent judges of
election. The Boards of Supervisors of Elections in each
such county may also in their discretion set up such sup-
plemental Boards of Registry as from time to time they
may deem necessary to aid and expedite the work of the
Permanent Board; such supplemental Boards shall consist
of two members, each of opposite political parties, and
shall be appointed one by the Supervisor representing the
majority party and one by the Supervisor representing
the chief minority party as the said parties are now or
may hereafter be constituted in this State. The salaries
and compensation of members of the Permanent and Sup-
plemental Boards of Registry and of persons designated
as herein above provided to act in place of a member of
the Permanent Board in case of the latter's absence, shall
be fixed as provided in Section 4 of this Article.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1949.

Approved March 31, 1949.

CHAPTER 106

(Senate Bill 221)

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke
City, a Maryland Municipal Corporation, to borrow on
the faith and credit of Pocomoke City, Thirty-five Thou-
sand Dollars ($35, 000. 00), and to issue bonds therefor
and to sell the same, the proceeds arising from the sale
thereof to be applied to the payment and liquidation
of certain outstanding notes, obligations and floating

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