1086 LAWS OF MARYIAND. [Ch. 694]

fails to perform these duties the Commissioners of Cambridge
shall appoint a substitute to perform the same.

Qualifications of Voters.

46. The male inhabitants of said town, who at the date of
any municipal election therein are respectively twenty-one yeara
of age, and have been bona fide residents of the town for one
year and of the ward wherein they severally purpose to vote
for two months next preceding such election, and who are
registered as hereinbefore provided, shall posses qualifications
of voters in such ward and shall be entitled to vote at any elec-
tion for commissioners and other officers, or at any other munic-
ipal election therein.

General Elections.

47. On the second Wednesday of July, in the year nineteen
hundred and twelve, and on the second Wednesday of July in
each and every second or alternate year thereafter, there shall
be an election held in the City of Cambridge for the purpose
of choosing commissioners, as hereinafter provided, and once
in each year, if the commissioners so desire, they may take the
sense of the qualified voters, as to the passage of any ordinance
or ordinances which they contemplate passing. In the year
1912 there shall be selected by the qualified voters of each of
wards Nos. 1, 4 and 5, a commissioner who shall hold office for
a term of four years, or until his successor is duly elected and
qualified and there shall be elected by the qualified voters of
each of wards Nos. 2 and 3, a commissioner to hold office for a
term of two years, or until his successor is duly elected and
qualified, and on the second Wednesday of July, in the year
1914, and on the second Wednesday of July in each and every
fourth year thereafter there shall be elected by the qualified
voters of each of wards No. 2 and 3, a commissioner who shall
hold office for a term of four years or until his successor is duly
elected and qualified and there shall be elected on the second
Wednesday of July, in the year 1916, and on the second
Wednesday of July in each and every fourth year thereafter,
by the qualified voters of each of wards Nos. 1, 4 and 5, a
commissioner who shall hold office for a term of four years or
until his successor is duly elected and qualified. The commis-
sioners shall provide the official ballots for such election or elec-
tions, the form and arrangement of such ballot to be as they
shall be by order prescribed except that all candidates for the
same office shall be grouped together and the names shall be