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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

3. The legal voters of Ocean City who have resided within

Qualifications

the corporate limits six months preceding an election and

of voters.

all male persons who own any real estate in said city of the

age of twenty-one years and upward, shall elect by ballot on

the first Monday in August, in 1902, and in every second

year thereafter, one person to be Mayor of said city, and five

persons to be City Councilmen of said city, all of whom must

be real estate owners in said city or have interest therein, and at

least three of said Council must be legal residents of said

city, to serve two years from the second Monday in Sep-

tember next after their election and until their successors

are elected and qualified; if any person so elected as Mayor

and City Councilman shall refuse to serve as such, or if his

Vacancy:

place shall become vacant by death, resignation, disqualifica-

how filled.

tion or otherwise, the remaining Councilmen shall fill the

vacancy as early as possible from among the qualified voters

of said town, and the person appointed to fill the vacancy

shall hold his office until the next election; and in case of a

tie between any persons voted for at any election under this

section of this Act, the clerk of election shall immediately

certify to the Councilmen elected the fact of there being a

tie, and the said Councilmen shall, at their first meeting as

a board, designate one of the said persons who have received

a tie vote to be Mayor or Councilmen, as the case may

be; and the Mayor or Councilmen, as the case may be,

shall hold his office as fully as if he had received the highest

Proviso.

number of votes ; provided, that the Mayor and City Councilmen

who shall be in office at the time this Act shall take effect

shall' hold their respective offices until their successors shall

be elected and shall qualify under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all official acts of the

Mayor and City Council of Ocean City, and of either of them,

since the passage of the said Chapter 569 of the Acts of 1902,

Official Acts

and prior to the passage of this Act and in pursuance or

ratified.

attempted pursuance of the powers vested in them by Chapter

528 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, at

its January Session, 1898, be and they are hereby ratified,

confirmed and made valid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all Acts and parts of

Acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby re-

pealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.