Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-04-30
TIE ELECTION Law.

| The main features of this ne,
law are the following:
The Governor is to appoint bien
nially three supervisors Of election
for Baltimore city and for eacI
county. The county boards ma
employ clerks with the consent o
the county commissioners at sucl
compensation as the county com
niissioners shall fix. In Baltimor
there is to be clerk at 81 200
year and a messenger at $500, an,
such temporary assistants as ma,
be necessary. The Governor is t,
select the supervisors from fou
names to be presented to him b,
the committee of the two leadin,
parties.
The Baltimore supervisors mus
each year, before July 1st, select
four judges of election for each pre-
cinct and before September 18th
two clerks of election. Two of the
judges and one of the clerks are ia
belong to each political party. The
county supervisors are before July
LIST, to select two judges of election
and before September 18th, to Sc
lect two more judges and two clerks
for each district or precinct. One
half OF these officials to be taken
from each Of the leading parties.
These officials are to act at all spe-
cial elections held within the terms
OF office. They must be voters re-
siding in their precincts, unless it
shall appear that in any precinct
there is no proper person residing,
IN which case they may come from
another precinct or district. Each
judge or clerk must be of good ca
pacity and character, able to speak,
read and write the English lang
uage and skilled in the four funda-
mental rules of arithmetic, not
holding any other Office and not be-
ing a candidate. Service as elec-
tlon officer is compulsory under q
fine of not less than 800 nor more
than $500. After serving one year
they cannot be compelled to serve
again within year and shall be ex-
empt from jury duty during the
term and one year after.
In the selection of Judge or clerk
each supervisor has veto, and if
they cannot agree then the super
visor or supervisors belonging to
the party entitled to be represent.
ed by the judge or clerk in aues-
tion shall name three men who are
eligible, and from these the other
supervisor or supervisors shall make
the selection.
REGISTRATION.
The supervisors shall before Au-
gust lst. -adyarAgnatihg the poll
tics Of each. The place of registra-
ton and voting are to be selected
by the supervisors and the rooms
prepared by them. The require
ments as to the location of rooms
are explicit. The officer of vital
statistics must report to the super
visors monthly the names and resi-
dences of every male person over
twenty-one years who has died, and
they ere to be printed and sent to
the officers of registration. The
supervisors are to give ten days no.
tice of registration and are TO have
charge of and make provision for
all Acknowledgement, special and
local. In incorporated towns 9th
er than the city of Baltimore, in
which charter elections are regulat-
ed by local laws, such laws are to
contiue in force and the elections
to be continued as heretofore.
In the city of Baltimore the foul
Judges of election are to DO also tb'
officers of registration, and in tn
counties the two judges who are ap
pointed before July 1st in each dis
trict shall be registrars, so that il
Baltimore there will be four regis
trars in each preeinct--two Demo
Gratis and two Republicsns-an
two registrars in each district Q
precinct in the counties-one Dem
ocrat and one Republican. Ther
is to be o new registration all owe
: the State this fall and hereafter ar
nually in the city. and in each pre-
, idential year in the counties. II
two registration books are to |