EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 203.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 241 and 244 of Article i of Code

of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany County,''

sub-title "Westernport;" and to repeal Sections 243 and

249 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

"Allegany County," sub-title "Westernport," as repealed and

re-enacted by Chapter 135 of the Acts of 1890; and Chapter

5 of the Acts of 1892, and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments.

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

land, That Sections 241 and 244 of Article 1 of the Code of

Western port's
charter of in-

Public Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "West-

corporation.

ernport," and that Sections 243 and 249 of Article 1 of the

Code of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title

"Westernport," as amended and re-enacted by Chapter 135

of the Acts of 1890, and Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1892, be and

the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

241. The citizens of the town of Westernport, in Allegany

County, are constituted and made a body corporate by the

Mayor and
Commission-

name of the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport, with

ers.

all the privileges of a body corporate and a common seal and

perpetual succession, and the word "Commissioners," when

used in the charter of the town of Westernport, shall be con-

strued to n lean the Mayor and Commissioners.

243. The male citizens of said town of Westernport of the

age of twenty-one years and "upwards, being citizens of the-

Qualifications
of voters.

United States and the State of Maryland, and who shall have

resided in said town for and during a space of six months

next preceding any municipal election, shall be qualified to

vote at any municipal election of officers in said town, and the

qualified voters are hereby authorized, on the second Monday

in January, in the year 1905, and biennially thereafter, at the

usual place of holding elections in said town, or such place as

shall be designated by the Commissioners of Westernport,

to elect one person, who shall have resided within the limits

thereof at least two years next preceding said election, as

Mayor of the town of Westernport, and the Mayor shall serve

until his successor is elected and qualified, and shall preside

At all meetings of the Mayor and Commissioners of the town

Mayors
rights.

of Westernport and execute the ordinances passed by them,

and shall be entitled to vote upon all matters pending before