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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall have resided within the State of Maryland for twelve

months and within Frederick City for six months next pre-

Qualifications

ceding the election, possessing the qualifications prescribed

of voter at a
municipal

by Section 270P of this Article, and who shall be first duly

election.

registered as prescribed in the subsequent sections of this

sub-title of this Article, shall be qualified to vote for a Mayor,

a City Register and for Aldermen, as hereinafter directed,

and at all municipal elections held in said city. All elections

shall be by ballot and no person shall be entitled to vote at

am election who is not duly registered as hereinafter required.

157. On the second Tuesday in June in the year 1904, and

on the same day in every third year thereafter, the voters

of Frederick City qualified as hereinafter prescribed, shall

elect the Mayor, the City Register and five Aldermen for the

City to be di-

city in the manner following", namely : The city shall be divided

vided in elec
tion precincts

into four voting" precincts, the outlines of which shall be

as laid off and designated in Section 104 of this Article, for

Stale and county elections (so far as the same applies to

Frederick City) and the said qualified voters of said city

shall vote at their respective polls for a Mayor. for a City

Register and for five Aldermen, all of which officials shall

be voted for at large by the voters of the entire city.

174. The term of office of the Aldermen elected at the

Term of office

regular election shall begin on the first Monday next after

their election, on which clay their first meeting shall be held,

and shall continue in office until their successors in office are

duly elected and qualified. The Mayor of said city may con-

vene the Board of Aldermen whenever and as often as it may

appear to him that the interest of the city require their de-

liberation.

City Register

180. No person shall be City Register of said city unless

and his sal-

he be at the time of his election a citizen of the United States

ary.

above the age of twenty-five years, a freeholder in the city

within the taxable limits thereof, actually residing therein,

and having resided therein for three years next preceding

his election. The annual salary of the person elected City

Register shall be twelve hundred dollars ; which sum shall

be his total compensation. He shall also be the collector of

taxes for said city, and whenever said City Register and tax

collector shall find it necessary to proceed by way of distress

or execution to collect any tax levied by the Mayor and Alder-

men of Frederick, which they are authorized by law to lay,

he shall as far as practicable proceed in the same manner as

is now provided by the laws of the State of Maryland for

the collection of State and county taxes. At the beginning of