WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1843

in his discretion. In Baltimore City, the Chief Clerk, with the
approval of the supervisors, shall from time to time, secure
such temporary assistance as may be necessary for the proper
transaction of the business of the office, but the compensation
of such assistants to be paid by the Mayor and City Council
of Baltimore, upon requisition by the said supervisors, shall
not be less than Five Thousand Dollars (f 5, 000. 00) in any
one year.

6. The Board of Supervisors of Elections in each of the
respective counties and in Baltimore City biennially shall
select for each election precinct in said county or city, as
the case may be, four judges of election, and for each election
precinct in said county or city, as the case may be, in which
paper ballots are used shall select two clerks of election,
taking two of such judges and one of such clerks from each
of the two leading political parties of the State; provided,
however, that no clerks of election shall be selected or ap-
pointed for any precinct or polling place in which voting
machines are used. Beginning August 1, 1946, the judges
and/or clerks of elections or registration selected in the years
in which members of the General Assembly of Maryland are
elected shall be appointed before the first day of August of
such years and the judges and/or clerks of elections or regis-
tration selected in the years in which the President of the
United States is elected shall be appointed before the first
day of March of such years. Each judge and clerk so selected
must be a legal voter residing in the precinct for which he is
selected, except that in Baltimore City he may be selected
from elsewhere in the same ward; able to speak, read and
write the English language, not holding any other public
office or employment and not a candidate for any office at the
next election; provided, however, that whenever all three
supervisors of the said city or county, as the case may be,
shall file in their office a sworn statement in writing that
suitable persons cannot in their judgment be secured in any
particular precinct for some of the offices to be filled, such
offices may then be filled by persons otherwise qualified re-
siding in another precinct of the same ward or in another
election district or precinct thereof, as the case may be. Each
Board of Supervisors may prescribe such rules or regulations
as they deem necessary for determining the qualifications of
persons selected for judges or clerks of elections, and may
require their attendance before said Board for examination
with respect thereto. Each Supervisor shall have a veto upon
the proposed selection or nomination of any such judge or
clerk; and if in any case, in consequence of such veto, the
Board of Supervisors cannot agree upon an appointment, then