1082 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch.

at the election to be held on the second Wednesday of July,
1912, as hereinafter provided shall hold office for two years
from said second Wednesday of July, 1912, and until their
successors are elected and qualified. The terms of office of all
commissioners elected from each of said five wards at any reg-
ular election held under this article after the year 1912, shall
be for a term of four years, and until their successors are duly
elected and qualified. The said commissioners shall be elected
by ballot, one from each of the several wards, and each ward
shall vote separately for its commissioner. No one shall be
eligible to be elected to the office of commissioner unless on the
day of election, wherein he is elected, he shall be a qualified
voter and entitled to vote at the municipal elections of said
town, and is then at least 25 years of age and has been a bona
fide resident of said city for one year and a bona fide resident
of the ward which he seeks to represent for six months next
preceding the day of such election and unless he or his wife
holds and possesses on the day of such election and has held
and possessed for six months previous thereto real estate or
leasehold property which is assessed on the assessment books of
said city as worth at least three hundred dollars, provided, that
in the case of leasehold property, the term or duration of said
leasehold interest shall not be less than 15 years.

Registration of Voters.

45A. The Commissioners of Cambridge shall cause to be
made in the year 1912 a registration of the legal voters in
each of the several wards of this city, the qualifications of such
voters to be such as are now prescribed by the Constitution and
laws of this State and of this article, and such registration shall
be essential to the right to vote at any election held under this
article, or any of the provisions of any Act of the General
Assembly, submitting any proposition or question to the deci-
sion of the voters of the City of Cambridge. In order to effect
such registration, the Commissioners of Cambridge shall on or
before the 1st day of May, 1912, appoint two persons from each
ward of different political faith to act as officers of registration
in their respective wards, who shall sit for two consecutive days,
namely, Tuesday and Wednesday, May 14th and 15th, 1912,
also on Wednesday and Thursday, June 5th and 6th, 1912,
between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. on said days for the
purpose of enrolling and registering the qualified voters for
their respective wards, in such places as shall be designated by
the said commissioners, and shall receive such compensation,