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opened not earlier than 6 o'clock A.M. and not later than 8 o'clock
A.M., and in Talbot County the polling places shall be opened by
the judges of election at 7 o'clock A.M. and shall be kept open until
7 o'clock P.M. of the same day, at which time they shall be closed.
If any judge or clerk shall not be present at the expiration of fifteen
minutes after the time for the opening of the polls the judge or
judges present shall fill the place of the absent judge or clerk by
appointing in his stead a person of the same political party as the
absentee. One of the judges shall administer to such substitute the
oath required of the judge or clerk originally appointed. After the
opening of the polls no judge or clerk shall absent himself therefrom
until all the ballots cast shall have been counted and the returns
completed. If in case of absolute necessity, any judge or clerk in
attendance shall be compelled to absent himself, he shall appoint
some fit person of the same political party with himself to act in his
stead until his return, having first administered to such substitute
the same oath as he himself has taken. Blank forms for the appoint-
ment of the substitute judges and clerks and the oath aforesaid
shall be supplied by the Supervisors, and the oath when administered
shall be preserved and returned by the judges to the Supervisors.
The appointment and swearing in of all such substitutes and the
reason therefor, and the time when such substitute began and ceased
to serve shall be noted by the judges in the poll books of the pre-
cinct or on loose-leaf pages inserted in the binders containing the
precinct cards; such substitute shall cease to act whenever the judge
or clerk in whose stead he was appointed shall be present.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved March 29,1955.

CHAPTER 198
(Senate Bill 384)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 16 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Chancery", sub-title "Auditor",
said new section to be known as Section 21A and to follow imme-
diately after Section 21 thereof, relating to the compensation of
the auditor in Baltimore County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article 16 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Chancery", sub-
title "Auditor", said new section to be known as Section 21A and
to follow immediately after Section 21 thereof, and to read as follows:

21 A. In Baltimore County, the auditor shall be allotved such
compensation as may be allowed by the Court to reasonably compen-
sate him for his- services, but in no case shall such compensation be
less than Fifteen Dollars ($15.00).

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.