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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 138.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 198, 199, 210C, 210D and 210G

of the Code of Public Local Laws, Article 20, title "Somer-

set County," sub-title "Princess Anne," as amended by the

Acts of 1894, Chapter 543, and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Sections 198, 199, 210C, 210D and 210G of Article

20 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Somerset County,"

sub-title "Princess Anne," as amended by the Acts of 1894,

Chapter 543, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-

enacted so as to read respectively as follows :

198. All the male citizens of said town, citizens of the United

Election of

States, above twenty-one years of age, who shall have bona

town officials.

fide resided in said town for the space of six months, and in

the State for the space of twelve months next preceding the

election, and owners of real estate within the corporate limits

of said town, who are residents and legally qualified voters

of Somerset County, shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday

in June, 1906, and in every two years thereafter at such place

within said town as shall be designated by the President and

Commissioners of said town by a notice to be put up in at

least five of the most public places in said town, at least one

week before the date of the election, one judicious and dis-

creet person, a qualified voter and resident of the said town,

Princess Anne, as Commissioner of said town, the person thus

selected as Commissioner shall within one month after his

election qualify by taking the oath prescribed by the sixth

section of the first Article of the Constitution of Maryland

before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset County

and at the first meeting of the Commissioners after such elec-

tion, which shall be within two mouths after said election, they

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shall choose from their own body, a President who shall pre-

presiding of-
ficer.

side at all meetings of said Commissioners and vote on all

questions before them, and in order to bring about the election

of one Commissioner every two years as aforesaid, the Com-

missioners now in office shall serve severally for a term of two,

four and six years from the first Monday in July, 1904, and

until their successors are respectively elected and qualified

and their successors shall each serve for a term of six years

from the first Monday in July next succeeding their election

respectively, and until their successors, respectively, are elected

and qualified ; the several terms of the Commissioners now in