EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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REGISTRATION.

The Mayor and City Council of Midland shall cause to be

made and maintained a registration of the legal voters of said

Registration of
legal voters.

town annually, which registration shall be essential to the right

of voting at any election under this charter, but shall not be

conclusive evidence of the right to vote. And said Mayor and

Council shall, annually, on or before the third Monday in

April, appoint two persons as officers of registration, who shall

sit in public for two days, from nine o'clock A.M. to twelve

noon, and from one o'clock P.M. to five o'clock P.M, and from

seven o'clock P.M. to nine o'clock P.M.; and the officers of

registration shall give at least one week's notice by publication

in one or more newspapers or by hand bills of the time and

place of their sitting, which must not be less than one week

before the election, at which all the qualified voters as herein-

after prescribed may register; and the said officers of regis-

tration before entering upon their duties shall take an oath

before some justice of the peace of Allegany County to per-

mit every qualified voter, and none other, to register, and

either of said registration officers shall have power to do all

things under this paragraph, in case one of them died or re-

fused to act; and upon the completion of the registration of

voters, the said officers of registration shall deliver to the judges:

List of quali-

of election a list of the qualified voters so registered; and the

fied voters.

officers of registration shall receive such compensation as the

Mayor and Council of said town shall determine.

MAYOR.

No person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor unless

he has attained the age of twenty-five years, and shall have

Eligibility of

resided in the town limits of Midland, as prescribed in the

the Mayor.

plat and survey thereof on record in the clerk's office of Alle-

gany County, for three years next preceding his election, and

shall also be assessed on the tax books of the town of Mid-

land with an amount not less than two hundred dollars in

real property. The Mayor elected at any regular election shall

hold office for one year from the first Monday in June next

after his election and until his successor is elected and quali-

fied. Should a vacancy occur in the office of Mayor more than

six months before the expiration of his time by reason of re-

moval from the town, death, resignation or removal from office

or otherwise, the Council shall, without delay, proceed to elect

a successor who shall possess the same qualifications as herein

provided for the election of the Mayor by the people. But