22 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 11

138. The Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore
City and the Board of Supervisors of Elections of the several
counties shall have power whenever more than 600 persons
are registered in any one election precinct or in any election
district which may not be divided into election precincts, to
provide one additional polling place in each such election
precinct or district; and whenever the several Boards of
Supervisors of Elections shall designate an additional polling
place in any election precinct or in any election district not
divided into precincts they shall appoint judges and clerks of
election therefor, as in this Article provided, who shall have
all the powers, perform all the duties, be subject to all the
responsibilities, and be liable to all the penalties prescribed
in this Article for judges and clerks of election. Whenever an
additional polling place is provided for any such election pre-
cinct or election district, it shall be the duty of the Board of
Supervisors of Election to cause an additional set or sets of
books to be prepared, containing the names of registered voters
transcribed from the original books. One set of books shall
contain the names of voters whose surnames begin with the
letter "A" down to and including those whose surnames shall
begin with the letter "J". The other set of books shall contain
the names of registered voters whose surnames begin with the
letter "K", down to and including those whose surnames begin
with the letter "Z". One set of books shall be used in each of
the polling places designated as provided for in this section.
All the members of the Boards of Supervisors of the counties
or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, shall sign their
names to the books which contain the names copied from the
original books for such polling places in the hands of said
supervisors, and shall duly certify that such set of books so
copied contain all the names of the persons entitled to vote
in such election precinct or district, such said certificate shall
appear on the blank line next following the last name in each
letter of the alphabetical list of names in the new books so
transcribed, and such said certification shall be attested by the
clerk of the respective Boards of Supervisors. The law with
respect to notice of the location of polling places shall apply
to those established under the provisions of this section. It
shall be the duty of the Boards of Supervisors to locate the
polling places in any one precinct as close together as possible,
so as to minimize any inconvenience to voters. Provided, that
the Boards of Supervisors of Elections of Montgomery County,
Anne Arundel County, and of Howard County, respectively,
may, in their discretion, so divide the list of voters at any
polling place in any election district or in any precinct in
any election district in Montgomery County, Anne Arundel