The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-23
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$50. If it shall happen that some office
or offices shall become vacant after the timt
fixed for filing certificates of nomination ant
nomination papers, or candidate for any
Office shall die after his name shall have beer
printed on the official ballots, tickets for suct
Office or offices alone, not exceeding foul
inches In length, msy be printed or prepared
in the manner now allowed by law, and may
be carried into the polling-room and voted al
the same time and in the same ballot-bo1
with the official ballot, and shall be counted
in the same manner as the official ballots; ano
in the cases mentioned in this section the
name of a candidate for such vacant Office
shall not be placed or written on the officia
ballot or counted if found thereon.
ISL. 1t shall be the duty of the said respec
tive boards of supervisors of elections to pro-
vide for each of the polling places in the said
cities and counties respectively, two books
for the use of the election clerks in keeping
the account of the votes, said books shall be
10 the form now In use for the purpose, ex
cept that they shall have in addition at least
one parallel column on the left hand margin
in which it shall be the duty of the election
clerks to place numbers consecutively against
the name of each voter whose vote shall be
recorded and placed in the ballot-box, so that
the voters who have voted shall be numbered
one after another in regular
sequence, the first voter to be numbered one
the next two, and SO on to the end.
152. 1t shall he the duty of the said boards
of supervisors of election at the same time
and in the same manner that they made the
appointment of the judges of elections, and
from persons having the same qualifications
as those prescribed by law for said judges, to
appoint Two ballot clerks for each precinct
and election district; each one OF the said
supervisors of election shall have a vote upon
the proposed selection or nomination of any
election clerk, and If in any instance in con-
sequence of such vote the board cannot agree
upon such appointment, then the names of
three persons who are eligible shall be sub
mitted for selection to for election clerks by
the supervisor or supervisors belonging to the
leading political party entitled to be repre-
sented by such election clerk, and out of said
three names the other supervisor or super
visors representing the other leading political
party of the State, shall select the name of
such election clerk, who when so selected
shall be appointed the election clerk, if
otherwise eligible, and shall serve, unless
excused by said board of supervisors of cleo
ton, so that there shall be two ballot clerks
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shall hold their Office for the same period as
the judges of election and one of the said
ballot clerks shall be selected from each ofthe
two different parties which polled the largest
number of votes at the last preceding general
election the compensation of the ballot clerks
shall be the same as that of judges of election !;
before proceeding to act they shall take and
an oath Tor afflrmation), if they be
scrupulous of taking an oath
In the form following: will not attempt to
save in cases and in the manner in
which I am authorized by law to do, for what
or candidates any person shall vote
Or have voted, or how any person shall vote
or has voted on any question which may be
Or may have been submitted to the vote of
The people, and If such knowledge shall be
acquired by me in the performance of my
duty, will not directly or indirectly, by
word or act divulge or reveal the same, or aid
10 doing so, save when I may be required to
DO 80 by law in some legal proceeding, and /
will in all things faithfully execute the duties
Of my Office Of ballot clerk according
10 the best Of my knowledge, without favor
Or partially, 30 help me God. The proceed
ngs of the board of supervisors Of election in
The city of Baltimore, with reference to the
of names of the appointees for
said ballot clerks, and of the hearing and dis
posal of complaints in regard to them, and the
filling OF vacancies In the Office shall be the
same as now provided by law in reference to
The judges of election; the obligation to serve
IS such clerks, and the penalty for refusal to
serve shall be the same as now provided by
law in regard to judges of election in like
case, as well in the several counties as in the
city of Baltimore respectively, and any per-
son having served as ballot clerk shall not be
obliged to serve again for three years there
after; warrants shall be issued to said ballot
clerks in the same manner and by the same
persons rs to the judges of election; the two
ballot clerks appointed above for each district
Or precinct polling-place, shall on the morn
ing of the election and after the ballots have
been opened by the return judge, receive the
same from the judges Of election and have
charge thereof, and shall furnish them to the
voters in the manner hereinafter set forth; If
any ballot clerk shall fail to appear at the
opening of the polls, or be, or become unable
10 serve, the vacancy shall be filled in the
same manner as now provided by law for a
like vacancy In the Office of judge of election
Or clerk.
1853. The said board of supervisors of cleo.
ion respectively, shall cause each polling
place 10 be suitably provided with sufficient
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1t or in which voters may conveniently mark
their ballots, 80 that in marking thereof they
nay be in sight but be screened from the
observation of others, and guard-rail shall
be SO constructed and placed that only such
persons as are inside said rail can approach
within six feet of the ballot. boxes, and OF such
voting shelves or compartments; the arrange
nents shall be such that neither the ballot
boxes nor the voting shelves or compartments
shall be hidden from view of those Just out
tide the said guard-rail the number of such
voting shelves or compartments shall not be
ess than one for every one hundred voters
qualified to vote at such polling place, and
not less than five in any voting precinct of
he city of Baltimore, and not less than three
N any district or precinct voting place else
where no persons other than the said cleo
ion officers and voters admitted as herein
provided, shall be permitted within said rail
except the police and the sheriff, deputy
'heriffs, for the sole purpose of keeping order
and enforcing the law and 30 long only as
nay be necessary for this purpose, and other
officers duly appointed under the revised
statutes of the United States, and in Balti-
more city such number of election police as
The board of supervisors of election of said
;ity shall see fit to appoint at every polling
place in said city; the powers of the said cleo
lion police shall be identical with the powers
Of said federal supervisors of election and the
,aid federal marshals; similar appointments
shall be made in the counties by the judges of
election of the several election districts or
polling places, aud this compensation shall
be the same as that of the judges of election,
'aid election police shall receive the same
from the mayor and city coun.
eli of Baltimore as judges of election are paid
IN said city, only 30 many of said election
police shall be permitted within said rail at
my one time as shall be equal TO the number
Of said United States officials within said rail
It such time and for the same length oftime;
zach voting shelf or compartment shall be
kept provided by the ballot clerks with proper
supplies and conveniences for marking the
ballots, and each ballot shall be marked by
The voters with the cross (X) herein men
Toned by means of rubber or other stamp,
provided for each booth, and supplied with
nix 80 that the cross (X) shall In all cases be
Is near as practicable uniform, not more than
,ix voters in addition to those then
within the railing shall be admitted to the
room at one time, and each voter except the
officers and representatives before mentioned
shall be required after voting to withdraw
entirely from the room the judges of election