90 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 46

sub-title, said new section to be known as Section 1246 A
and to follow immediately after Section 1246 of said
Article, and all to read as follows:

1237. The election for all elective town officers shall be
held on the first Monday in May at a place to be designated
by the Mayor and Common Council, and notices of such
place must be posted in three public places at least ten days
before said election. The polling place shall remain open
from [1 o'clock P. M. ] 7 o'clock A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M., or
longer at the discretion of the Mayor and Common Council.
Such election shall be conducted by three judges and two
clerks to be appointed by the Mayor and Common Council
annually, and they shall each take the oath prescribed
herein for town officers.

The said election judges and clerks shall be known as
the Board of Election Supervisors, shall serve [without
pay as such, ] with such pay as may be determined by the
Mayor and Common Council, and shall meet on the first
Monday of April of each year from 7: 30 to 10: 00 o'clock
P. M. for the purpose of receiving certificates for nomina-
tion for Mayor, [and] Councilmen and Treasurer which
said nominations shall be in writing, signed by not less
than twenty qualified voters of said town, and no signature
shall be counted if it be upon more than one nomination
paper of a candidate for Mayor and Treasurer, or upon
more than seven nomination papers of candidates for
Councilmen. No certificates of nomination shall be re-
ceived by the said Board of Election Supervisors after the
said meeting of the Supervisors for purpose of receiving
such certificates of nomination, as hereinbefore provided,
except that in the event of any vacancies occurring in
nominations for Mayor, [and] Councilmen, and Treasurer,
either by declination, death, or any other cause, the same
may be filled in the manner herein provided, at any time
prior to the Tuesday before the day of any election, general
or special, held hereunder. No names shall be printed on
the official ballot not presented to said Board of Election
Supervisors in the manner herein provided.

Suitable ballot boxes and a polling place shall be pro-
vided by the Mayor and Common Council. Immediately
upon the closing of the polls the ballots shall be publicly
counted and the said judges shall make a true and correct
return of the votes so cast, shall seal the same and shall
within two days thereafter return the same to the Mayor
and Common Council or the Clerk thereof. Within ten days
after said election the Mayor and Common Council shall
meet and canvass the said returns and shall declare those