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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

conviction thereof in the Circuit Court of Frederick County,

or in any other court having jurisdiction in the premises, his

office shall be deemed to be vacant, and said Board of Alder-

men shall thereupon appoint some other person having the

qualifications hereinbefore prescribed for the office of City

Register to fill out the unexpired term of the person so

convicted. The term of office of the person so elected City

Register shall begin on the first Monday next after his election

and he shall continue in office until his successor in office is

duly elected and qualified.

Mayor's salary

185. The Mayor shall receive in lieu of fees an annual sal-

and duties.

ary of six hundred dollars, payable quarterly in equal instal-

ments, which sum shall be his total compensation. He shall

annually, immediately before making out the tax levy for each

year, and as much oftener as he shall deem necessary, examine

into and audit the accounts of the City Register, and shall

report the result of his examination, in writing, to the Board of

Aldermen, who shall preserve such reports and record the same

among the minutes of their proceedings. The term of office

of the person elected Mayor shall begin on the first Monday

next after his election and shall continue until his successor

in office is duly elected and qualified.

270B. The Governor shall appoint, on or before the first day

of April, in the year 1904, unless such appointment shall

already have been made under existing law, and on or before

the same day every third year thereafter, for the City of Fred-

erick, three persons, who shall constitute and be styled "The

Board of Su-
pervisors of

Board of Supervisors of Elections for Frederick City ;" said

Elections.

Supervisors shall be residents and voters of said city, and two

of them shall always be selected from the majority political

party of the State, one from the minority party ; they shall

be men of high character and integrity and of recognized busi-

ness capacity. Each of said Supervisors of Elections shall re-

ceive the sum of fifty dollars as compensation for his services

during his term of office from the Mayor and Aldermen of

Frederick. The salaries and all other expenses incurred by

them in the proper discharge of their duties as such Supervisors

of Elections shall be audited and paid by the Board of Alder-

men by warrant drawn upon the proper officers of said city ;

any person or persons appointed Supervisors of Elections of

said city in pursuance of this section as it stood prior to the

passage of this Act shall perform the duties required by them

Their Acts to

by law, and all their acts hereafter done in pursuance of such

be valid.

appointment shall be as valid and effectual as if their appoint-

ment had been made subsequent to the passage of this Act

and in pursuance thereof.