190

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said town of Laurel, as the Board of Election Supervisors

hereinafter named shall designate, vote for one person as

Mayor of said town of Laurel to serve for two years from

the fourth Monday in April, 1904, and until the qualification

of his successor, and the said voters shall also on the said

third Monday in April, 1904, and every two years there-

How Council-
men shall be

after, vote for five persons as members of the City Council of

chosen.

Laurel, to serve for two years and until their successors shall

have qualified, two of whom shall be chosen from the said

town at large and one from each of the three wards in said

town, the representatives of the wards to be domiciled in the

ward each shall be chosen to represent. And the said town

Boundaries.

of Laurel shall be divided into three wards as follows : Ward

No. I shall embrace all of said town lying westerly of a line

drawn from the southerly limits of the town at a point where

the westerly line of Church street intersects said limits, running

northerly along the westerly line of Church street to Main

street, and thence in a straight line by the same course to the

Patuxent river; Ward No. 2 shall embrace all of said town

between the above-mentioned line and a line drawn from a

point in the southerly limits of said town where the westerly

line of Fourth street intersects it, northerly to Main street and

along said line to Fourth street; thence to the westerly side

of Race street, and thence to the Patuxent river by the course

of the westerly line of Race street ; Ward No. 3 shall embrace

all the residue of said town lying easterly of the last above-

mentioned lines.

194. The Mayor of said town shall be a person of known

Qualifications
for the may-

integrity, experience and sound judgment, not less than thirty

oralty.

years of age, not less than ten years a citizen of the United

States, and two years a resident of the said town of Laurel

next preceding the election, and assessed upon the assessment

books of said town for not less than three hundred dollars

and paid taxes thereon for at least one year; and said Mayor

shall hold his office for two years and until the qualification

of his successor. And the said Mayor shall receive a salary

Salaries of

of one hundred dollars per annum, and the City Councilmen

Mayor and
Councilmen.

of said town of Laurel shall be citizens of the United States,

above the age of twenty-five years, residents of said town for

not less than two years next preceding the election, and assessed

upon the assessment books of said town for at least one hun-

dred dollars, and paid taxes thereon for at least one year, and

shall hold their office for two years and until the qualifications

of their successors. And the said Councilmen shall each receive

a salary of twenty-five dollars per annum.