1842 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 749

ployees, including such temporary assistants, as may be neces-
sary from time to time, and to prescribe their duties and fix
their rank. Except as provided elsewhere in this section,
the said Boards of Supervisors of Elections shall also have
power to fix the number, salary and compensation of all such
employees, which salary or compensation shall be payable by
the respective County Commissioners of each county, as the
case may be; provided, however, that the total amount of
compensation so paid shall not exceed in any one year the
total amount appropriated for the use of the said Boards
of Supervisors of Elections.

(b) Beginning with January 1, 1950, the Supervisors of
Elections of the City of Baltimore shall have a Chief Clerk at
a salary of Forty-five Hundred Dollars ($4, 500) per annum,
an Assistant Chief Clerk at a salary of Forty-five Hundred
Dollars ($4, 500) per annum, two Registrars at a salary of
Thirty-eight Hundred Dollars ($3, 800) each per annum, two
Assistant Registrars at a salary of Three Thousand Dollars
($3, 000) each per annum, two Clerks at a salary of Thirty-five
Hundred Dollars ($3, 500) each per annum, one Clerk at a
salary of Twenty-nine Hundred Dollars ($2, 900) per annum,
two Clerks at a salary of Twenty-seven Hundred and Eighty
Dollars ($2, 780) each per annum, thirteen Clerks at a salary
of Twenty-six Hundred and Sixty Dollars ($2, 660) each per
annum, four Clerks at a salary of Twenty-four Hundred and
Twenty Dollars ($2, 420) each per annum, a Custodian of
voting machine^ at a salary of Twenty-nine Hundred Dollars
($2, 900) per annum, three Deputy Custodians of voting ma-
chines at a salary of Twenty-six Hundred and Sixty Dollars
($2, 660) each per annum, three typists at a salary of Eighteen
Hundred and Fifteen Dollars ($1, 815) each per annum, and
a stenographer at a salary of Twenty-three Hundred Dol-
lars ($2, 300) per annum. All such salaries in Baltimore
City shall be as established in the Ordinance of Estimates
in Baltimore City, except that they may not be less than
as specified hereinabove in this section. Nothing in this
section shall be so construed as to prevent the said Board
of Supervisors of Elections from requiring any of the
above mentioned employees to perform such duties as the
said Board may, in its discretion, deem advisable. The said
clerks, and in the City of Baltimore, the chief clerk and the
other employees above enumerated shall be appointed by the
respective boards of supervisors and shall be removable by
them in their discretion except that in Baltimore City one of
the registrars and one of the assistant registrars shall be
appointed by the member of the board who shall have been
selected from the political party opposite to that of the
Governor; and shall be removable by such member of the board