Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-10-31
of Elecfinn.


Judge Bond Of the U. S. District Cour
appointed supervisors Ct election 70
I this congressional district, on Wednesday
The appointments for this COUNTY
are as follows:
lst District.-John W. Albrittain, Rep.
Charles +. Wade, Dem.
End Disirict.-Henry II. Bowie, Rep, Ma
poleon Jameson, Dem.
Bird District .-Maximillian Clements. Rep,
Price Gray, Dem.
4th District. - Samuel j. Lancaster, Rep,
j Camlllus Howard, Dem.
9TH District.-John r. Sinclair. Rep,
Charles II Neale. Dem.
9th Decentralization Mudd Rep, b. F
Blandford, Dem.
7th Disirict.-w. Z. W. Rowe, Rep, II.
Turner HALEY, Dem.
9Th District. james Darg, Rep, Alexan-
der Bowling, Dem.
9th District.-J F. S. Middleton, Rep,
James + Farrall, Dem.
Under the United States statutes this class
Of Federal officers are authorized to place
themselves in any part Of the election room or
booth and scrutinize the action Of State Off
cials 50 as to prevent fraud This will pre-
vent deception on the part Of ballot clerks in
assisting iliterate voters 10 mark their tickets
and will also prevent judges Of election from
detrauding voters out of their votes by taking
technical advantages Of a miscail of their
name. The supervisors Of election, under The
instructions given them with their commits
sions, are ordered TO prevent any attempt at
fraud, and TO arrest forthwith any offending
party, judges Of election, ballot clerks or any
one else guilty Of such conduct. The sections
OF the statute providing for the appointment
Of supervisors, and defining their duties read
as follows:
Sec. 20l7. The supervisors of election are
authorized and required to attend at all times
and places for holding elections Of Representa-
tives or Delegates in Congress, and for count
ing the votes cast at such elections; to chal-
lenge any vote offered by any person whose
legal qualifications the supervisors, or either
Of them, may doubt; to be and remain where
the balot-boxes are kept at all times after the
polls are open until every vote cast at such
time and place las been counted, the canvass
OF all votes polled wholly completed, and the
proper and requisite certificates or returns
made, whether the certificates or returns be
required under any law Of the United States,
or any State, territorial, or municipal law,
and TO personally inspect and scrutinze, from
time to time, and at all times on the day Of
election. the manner in which the voting is
done, and the way and method In which the
poll-books, registry lists, and tallies or check
books, whether the same are required by any
law OF the United States, or any State, Terri
toral, or municipal law, are keut
Sec. 2Ol9. The better 10 enable the super
vIsors Of election 10 discharge their duties,
they are authorized and directed, in their re-
spective election districts or voting precincts,
on the day Of registration, on the day when
registered voters may be marked to be chal-
lenged, and on the day Of election, to take,
occupy, and remain IN such position, from
time TO time, whether before or behind the
bAllot-bexes, as will, in their Judgment, best
enable them to see each person Offering him
self for registration or Offering to vote, and as
will best conduce TO :heir scrutinizing the man
ner in which the registration or voting is be-
ing conducted; and AZ the closing of the polls
for the reception Of votes, they are required to
place themselves in such position, in relation
to the ballot boxes, for the purpose of engag-
ing in the work of canvassing the ballots, rs
Will enable them to fully perform the duties
in respect to such canvass provided herein,
aud shall there remain until every duty in re-
spect to such canvass, certificates, returns,
and statements has been wholly completed.
Sec 600 When in any election district or
voting precinct in ans city or town, for which
there have been appointed supervisors of cleo
ton for any election at which a Representa-
tive or Delegate in Congress is voted for, the
supervisors Of Gle ton arc not allowed u ex
etcise aud discharge, fully and freely, and
without bribery, solicitation, interference,
moestaton, violence, or threats
thereof on the part Of any person, all the du
ties, obligations, and powers conferred upon
them hy law the supervisors of election sh Ill
make prompt report, under oath, within tens
days after the day Of election to the officer
who, in accordance with the provisions of Sec
ton Two thousand aud twenty-five, has been.
de gnated as the chief supervisor Of the judi
cial district ia which the city or town where
in they served, acts, of the manner and means
by which they were not 50 allowed to fully
and freely exercise and discharge the duties
and obligations required and imposed hereia.