20 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 3

by the unanimous vote of said Board. Any candidate or Ab-
sentee Resident aggrieved by any decision or action of said
Board shall have the right of appeal to the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, if he so desires, to review such decision or ac-
tion, 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 official canvass by
the Board of all the votes cast at any election, 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 Ap-
peals, 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 transmitted
to the Court of Appeals within ten (10) days from the taking
of the appeal.

The Governor shall appoint two substitutes to the
Board immediately after the effective date of this Act, 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 appointing such substitutes it shall be the
Governor's duty to request the State Central Committee repre-
senting 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 permanent
incapacity from any cause of one of the regular members 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 while so serving shall
have all the powers and authority, and be subject to all the
duties imposed upon a Supervisor of Elections by the other
provisions of this sub-title. In the event that any substitute,
while serving, becomes incapacitated, the Governor shall ap-
point another person in his place as herein provided for the
original substitute. In the event of a vacancy by death, resig-
nation, or otherwise, the Governor shall fill such vacancy as
provided in Section 1 of this Article and pending the filling
of said vacancy, the substitute herein provided for shall serve.