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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

son for bailiff; and that such judges of election, before open-
ing the polls, shall take the oath before some justice of the
peace in said town, to permit every qualified person to vote
and none other, and a majority of the said three judges shall
have power to do all things under this section in case one of
them dies or refuses to act. In case this Act is passed too
late to allow the election to be held on the second Monday in
April, nineteen hundred, the first election shall be held as
soon as possible after the passage of this Act, on giving the
ten days notice required.

How election
shall be held.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That at the election provided in
Section fourteen of this Act each voter shall have written or
printed on his ticket for incorporation or against incorpora-
tion, and if a majority of the qualified voters in said town
shall vote in favor of incorporation then the provisions of this.
Act shall take effect and the election thereunder shall be valid,
but if a majority of the said voters shall vote against incor-
poration then this Act shall be held null and void for a period
of one year, or until the second Monday in April, 1901, when
the qualified voters of the said town may again assemble and
vote as herein provided, and if at the second election a
majority of the qualified voters of said town shall vote for
incorporation then the provisions of this Act shall take effect,
and the election thereunder shall be valid; but if a majority
of said voters shall vote against incorporation then the Act
shall be held as utterly null and void.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
on the date of its passage. .

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 730.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to the deed from Celome and Wil-
liam C. Geoghegan to Trustees of the Lee-Street Baptist
Church of Baltimore City.

Bequest
sanctioned to
Trustees of
the Lee Street
Baptist Church
of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted bv the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sanction and consent of the General Assembly
of Maryland be and the same is hereby declared, given and
granted to the conveyance of certain property conveyed by
Celome and William C. Geoghegan to the Trustees of the Lee-
Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, Maryland, by deed bearing