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EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
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land, That Section 5 of the Acts of 1902 be repealed and re-
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Local election
law.
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enacted with amendments so as to read as follows :
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5. That any male citizen of the United States who has never
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been convicted of any infamous crime either in this State or
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Entitled to
vote at muni-
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elsewhere, but who has resided within the State for one year
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cipal election.
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and in the corporate limits of the town of Pocomoke City for
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six months next preceding the election, and who is above the
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age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at all munici-
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pal elections hereafter held in said town of Pocomoke City,
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provided, he shall possess at least one of the following quali-
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fications, namely :
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(1) If he is the bona fide and actual owner of real or per-
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sonal property of the value of five hundred dollars or upwards,
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Must be as-
sessed as
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for which he has been duly and lawfully assessed on the as-
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owner of a
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sessment books of said town, and upon which no municipal
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certain sum.
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taxes are in arrears and due, or
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(2) If prior to January the first, 1868, he was entitled to
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A voter prior
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vote in the State of Man-land or elsewhere in the United States
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to the year
1868.
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at a State election, or
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(3) If he is the male, lawful descendant of a person who
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Lawful de-
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prior to January first, 1868, was entitled to vote in the, State
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scendant of a
voter of that
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of Maryland or elsewhere in the United States at a State
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date.
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election.
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And the male citizens of said town who are qualified to vote
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as herein described and set forth, shall on the first Tuesday
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Election of a
Councilman
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in April, 1904, elect by ballot one person to be Councilman,
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in April of
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and on the same day in each and every year thereafter, elect
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every year.
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by ballot one person to be Councilman to succeed the Council-
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man whose term of office is about to expire, and likewise on
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the first Tuesday in April, 1904, and on the same day in every
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second year thereafter, elect by ballot one person to be Mayor.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
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from the date of its passage.
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Approved March 31, 1904.
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CHAPTER 209.
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AN ACT to amend the charter of the German-American Fire
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Insurance Company of Baltimore City by increasing its
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capital stock, enlarging its powers and giving it perpetual
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succession.
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