836                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 392

(1)    In Dorchester County, such notices shall be in three news-
papers published therein (one of which, if possible, shall be of the
principal minority party).

(2)    In Queen Anne's County, handbills shall not be authorized.

(b) In Baltimore City, the board shall give notice five (5) days
before the date of the election by advertisement in all the daily
newspapers and may give such notice in one or more weekly or
semi-weekly newspapers published in Baltimore City and having a
circulation of not fewer than 20,000 subscribers, which will publish
the same at their current rate for commercial advertising.

2-11. Polling places.

(a) (1) It is the duty of the respective boards to appoint and
to provide for furnishing, heating, lighting and cleaning, a suit-
able polling place in each precinct, which shall be as near the center
of the voting population of the precinct as practicable. Whenever
all three members of any board shall file in their office a statement
in writing that a suitable place cannot in their judgment be secured
in any precinct, a suitable place in an adjoining precinct may be
provided. In no case shall an election be held in any building or
part of any building used or occupied as a saloon, billiard hall or
bowling alley or communicating therewith by doors or hallways
except as to a building owned and occupied by a bona fide
volunteer fire company in Allegany County.

(2) In Baltimore City, a rental of $35.00 per diem is to be paid
for the use of each appointed privately owned polling place.

(b)    Wherever possible and practicable, it shall be the duty of
each board to use public buildings, such as school houses and fire-
engine houses, for polling places. It is the duty of all public officials
having charge of such buildings to place them at the disposal of the
boards without charge. Such space as needed therein for the proper
conduct of elections shall be provided upon application for their use
by the boards and light, heat and custodial and janitorial services
for the buildings shall be provided without charge. Nothing in this
subsection shall be construed to mean that volunteer fire companies
or rescue squads shall not be paid for the use of their facilities.

(1)    In Montgomery County it shall be mandatory that the
County Board of Education make available such space and custodial
service as needed for the proper conduct of registrations and elec-
tions upon application by the board for the county.

(2)    In Charles County the board in its discretion, shall be per-
mitted to use private firehouses and private halls, excluding church
halls, for registration and polling places.

(c)    The requirements for all places of registration shall be the
same as those for polling places.

2-12. Creating precincts, changing boundaries, and additional
polling places.

(a) The boards, whenever they deem it to be expedient for the
convenience of the voters, may:

(1) Subdivide into precincts any election district in their re-
spective counties or ward in Baltimore City, as the case may be;