Szc. 15. No person shall be appointed a special deputy marshal who shall not be able to read and write the Englishl language. Special deputy marshals. when required by the chief supervisor of elections. shall aid and assist the super. visors of elections in making the house canvass provided for in this act. the number of special deputy marshals who may under any provision of law he appointed for election purposes shlall be determined from time to time at conferences between thle marshal and the chief supervisor of elections. and no other or greater number of special deputies shall he appointed than the chief supervisor of elections shall from time to time certify to be. in his opinion. necessary to observe the manner in which thle election officers are discharging their duties to enforce the election laws of the United States and to prevent frauds and irregularities in naturalization and to keep the peace. Iii the making of assignments of such special deputy marshals as shall be appointed the marshal shall be governed by the request of the chief supervisor of elections. aud it is further made the duty of the special deputy marshlals. and each of them is hereby required. if directed by the chief supervisor of elections. to take charge of such returns of the canvass of thle votes found in any box which under existing law the chief supervisor may require to be made to him by the supervisors of election. as the ca nvass of echcl box iseompleted and the returns tiereof are made out and signed by the supervisors. and forthwith .in such manner and at such place as the chief supervisor shall direct. safely deliver to him all such returns so intrusted to their care and custody. onethird of the spccial deputy marshals appointed in any authorized place must and shall be taken and named from such lists of persons as shall be forwarded the marshal by the chief supervisor oi elections. and the office of every chief supervisor of elections shall be in the ciy. town. or other place in his judicial district in which he resides or does business. and if therein there shall bo a public building the property of the United States it is hereby made thle duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to assign to the use of such officer such necessary rooms therein as shall not be needed and occupied by the courts of the United States. the judges and clerks thereof. the district attorney. the marshal of thle United States. and the postoffice. to the exclusion of all other occupants. if the said Secretary shall not be able in any such city. town. or other place so to assign thle necessary rooms for thle use and occupancy of any such chief supervisor of elections in such building. then and in that event he shall assign him therein room at least sufficient for his usc cas arecord room. andashall fit the same up in asuitabhenianner for snch use. and shallithen hire and furnish for bin the necessary and requisite rooms for his office and working use in such other building in said city as may be selected by said chief supervisor and agreed to by thle Secretary of the Treasury. and jthe ann ual rent of such rooms so hired and the cost of furnishing the same shial!l be paid by the said Secretary from the Treasury of the United States. from the permanent appropriation provided by law therefor. and the same action as to hiring and furnishing offices for a chief supervisor shall be bad and taken in any such city. towii. or other place of residence of a chief supervisor in which there shall be no public building. theproperty of the United States. and a portion of which shall be occupied by the courts or the postoffice. SEC. 20.
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