1320                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 739

Board shall be ordered by a Court of competent jurisdiction to keep
the same for any longer period.

278.   Contests. Contests concerning registration, voting or the
validity of any ballot under this sub-title shall be decided by the
Board. No registration shall be denied and no ballot rejected except
by the unanimous vote of said Board. Any candidate or Absentee
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 action, 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 Appeals, 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.

279.    Substitute Supervisors. The Governor shall appoint two
substitutes to the Board, one of whom shall be of the same political
party as that of the majority of the supervisors regularly consti-
tuting 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 candi-
dates 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 pro-
visions of this sub-title. In the event that any substitute, while
serving, becomes incapacitated, the Governor shall appoint another
person in his place as herein provided for the original substitute.
In the event of a vacancy by death, resignation, 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. Each substitute shall be paid by Baltimore
City not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) a day for each day he
serves, as in this section and sub-title provided, but no such substi-
tute shall be entitled to the regular pay provided by law for a Super-
visor of Elections.

280.   General Powers of Board. The Board is hereby authorized
and empowered to do any and all acts, the carrying out of which