WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 151

16. The Board of Supervisors of Election of the City
of Hagerstown and judges of election holding office at the
time this Charter becomes effective, shall continue in office
until their successors are duly appointed and qualified.

The Governor shall appoint, not later than the first
Monday in November in the year 1952 and every four
years thereafter, from a list of six persons submitted by
the Mayor, three persons, residents and voters of the City
of Hagerstown, not more than two of whom shall be
selected from the same political party of the City of
Hagerstown, all of whom shall be men of approved integ-
rity and capacity, and none of them shall hold office or
employment under the Government of the United States
or of the State of Maryland, and they must not be candi-
dates for office at the next ensuing municipal election in
the City of Hagerstown, or at any municipal election in
said City, within the term for which they or any of them
were appointed, who shall be styled the Board of Super-
visors of Election of the City of Hagerstown; each of said
Supervisors shall hold office for the term of four years,
accounting from the first Monday of November in the
year of their appointment; in case of a vacancy occurring
in said Board, such vacancy shall be filled by the Governor
as soon as possible; it shall be the duty of said Board to
conduct each primary, general and special election for the
City of Hagerstown in accordance with the election laws
of Maryland, all of which are hereby made effective in the
City insofar as such laws are applicable; it shall be the
duty of said Board, not later than the fifteenth day of
December of the year following their appointment, to
appoint two persons for each precinct of said City of
Hagerstown, who shall be residents and voters of the ward
in which such precinct is situated, and who shall be judges
of election for such precinct from the time of their appoint-
ment and until new appointments shall have been made;
and it shall be the duty of said Board in making the
appointment of such judges of election to select one of
the said judges for each precinct from each of the leading
political parties. If any of the said judges shall die, resign
or remove out of the ward in which the precinct for which
he was appointed is situated, or become otherwise, in the
opinion of said Board, disqualified to act as such judge of
election, then the Board of Supervisors of Election of the
City of Hagerstown shall appoint a person as judge for
the precinct in which each vacancy may occur; the said
Board of Supervisors of Election of the City of Hagers-
town shall record every appointment so made in a book
to be kept for that purpose, and shall make out a warrant