PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 150j3

1912, and every second' year thereafter on the first Monday in
May, at such place or places as shall be designated by the judges
of election, between the hours of 5 o'clock P. M. and 9 o'clock
P. M., elect by ballot one person for Mayor of said town, who
shall serve for a term of two years, or until his successor is
elected and qualified; the qualified voters. aforesaid shall also
elect on said first Monday in May, 1912, four persons to be
members of the council of said town, who, together with the
Mayor, shall constitute the council of said town; two of the
said councilmen shall serve for a term of two years, or until
their successors- are elected and qualified, and two for a term
of one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified,
and at the first meeting of the council they shall decide by lot
the members of these two classes; and thereafter they, the said
voters shall annually elect two persons as members of the coun-
cil, to serve for two years or until their successors are elected
and qualified. The judges of election shall, before holding elec-
tions, make oath before a justice of the peace for Montgomery
county or the Mayor of Somerset, who is hereby empowered to
administer such, oath, that they will well and faithfully per-
form the duties of their office and that they will permit every
qualified voter to vote, and none other. The qualifications for
voters for Mayor and councilmen shall be as follows: That they
shall be male citizens of the United States of the age of twenty-
one years or upwards, taxpayers or husbands of same, of the
county or of said town, and bona fide residents of said town
for not less than six months next preceding the election at
which they shall vote.

1906, ch. 795, sec. 4.

538. That the Mayor shall be a voter of paid town as above
prescribed, and a citizen of the State of Maryland, a bona fide
property owner, or the husband of such, within the corporate
limits, not less than twenty-five years of age, and must have
resided within said limits for a period of not less than three
years next preceding the election in which he is a candidate
for such office. He shall preside at all meetings of the council
and shall call such special meetings of the same from time
to time as he may deem necessary, but in the event of the
absence of the Mayor from any meeting, the members of the
council present shall elect one of their own number to preside
during his absence, who shall, for the time being, be clothed
with all the powers and authorities of said Mayor. The coun-
cil shall pass rules and by-laws for their own government while
in session. All vacancies in the office of Mayor or councilman
caused by death, absence from session of the council for more
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