1066 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 683]

United States, at least twenty-five years of age and bona fide
residents of said town for at least two years preceding the
date of their election, and shall each in his own right, or in
the right of his wife, own real estate in the town assessed
at not less than $600; and all male citizens of the United
States above twenty-one years of age who shall own property
assessed in the limits of the town and shall have paid their
tax, and duly registered or hereinafter provided, and all male
inhabitants of the town who are citizens of the United States
above twenty-one years of age who shall have bona fide resided
in the town two years next preceding the election at which
they shall offer to vote, and who shall be duly registered as
hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote for said presi-
dent and commissioners.

130A. That the supervisors of election for Cecil county be
and they are hereby authorized and directed not later than the
10th day of April, in the year 1912, and by that date in every
year thereafter to appoint two registers of voters for the Town
of Elkton, one from each of the leading political parties of
the State; said registers of voters shall receive the same com-
pensation as registers of voters under the general laws of the
State, and shall hold office for one year and until their suc-
cessors are duly appointed and qualified; said registers shall
take the usual oath of office before the supervisors of elections,
and the president and commissioners of the Town of Elkton
shall procure and deliver to the said registers of voters two
suitable registration books similar in all respects to registra-
tion books now in use under the Election Laws of Maryland,
and shall also designate the place where the registration shall
be held each year.

SEC. 131. Said registers of voters shall open said books of
registration at the place designated, as provided by section
130A, on the third Monday and Tuesday of April, in the year
1912, for a complete registration of the voters of the Town of
Elkton who possess the qualifications required by section 130,
and every year thereafter on the third Monday in April to
register new voters and to revise the list of said registration;
said registers of voters shall give at least five days' notice by
handbills of the time and place of said registration, which
handbills shall be posted in at least ten places in the town,
and at said registration of voters said register of voters shall
duly register all voters possessing the qualifications as pro-
vided in section 130, who shall apply in person for registra-
tion. Any register of voters who shall knowingly violate the
provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and