THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 23

sub-title, if it deems such action would further effectuate
or aid the purposes of this sub-title.

(f) The Commission is further authorized and empowered to
co-operate with all Federal authorities in facilitating and
expediting voting by all Absentee Residents and to co-operate
with the elections officials of Baltimore City in all matters
relating to voting by such Absentee Resident in any elec-
tions covered by this sub-title and in all matters relating to
the registration of Absentee Residents.

(g) All rules and regulations of the Commission shall be
binding upon and shall be followed by the Board.

The Board shall also act as a Board of Registry, as
Judges of Election, and as a Board of Canvassers, as the
case may be, whenever the duties imposed upon it by this
sub-title make it appropriate or require that it so act. When
acting either as a Board of Registry, as Judges of Election,
or as a Board of Canvassers, the Board shall have, possess
and exercise all the authority, powers and discretion con-
ferred by law upon said Boards of Registry, Judges of Elec-
tion and Boards of Canvassers, respectively. The Board of
Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City is hereby granted
the authority to appoint such numbers of temporary Boards
of Registry and such numbers of temporary Judges of Elec-
tions as said Board may deem necessary to adequately and
promptly carry out the provisions of this sub-title. Each
temporary Board of Registry shall consist of two members,
one of whom shall be registered as a member of the Demo-
cratic Party and one of whom shall be registered as a mem-
ber of the Republican Party, and each such Board of Registry
is hereby authorized to register Absentee Residents entitled
under this sub-title to registration in the manner specified
in this sub-title for a period of fifteen (15) days prior to
election day, on election day, and for such period of time
after election day as may be necessary to complete the regis-
tration of Absentee Residents entitled to register under this
sub-title. The temporary Judges of Elections appointed
under this section shall be divided into groups of four, two
of whom shall be registered as members of the Republican
Party, and two of whom shall be members of the Democratic
Party, and such groups are hereby authorized to count and
tabulate the ballots of Absentee Residents cast at any elec-
tion in the manner and at the times specified in this sub-title.
The duties of the Boards of Registry and temporary Judges
of Elections provided for in this section shall at all times be
conducted under the supervision and control of the Board
of Supervisors of Elections, and, in case of any dispute as to
either the registration of an Absentee Resident or the count-