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judges, and they shall prepare slips containing the names of the various
nominees and the office for which they are a candidate, with a block at
the end of each name for the X mark of the voter, which slips shall be
circulated among the persona present at the said meeting and entitled
to vote at the said regular city election, and shall thereupon be marked
with an X in back of the name of the person whom they desire for the
respective office, and said slips shall then be deposited in a ballot box to
be furnished by the Mayor and Council, and shall thereupon be counted
by the judges of said election, and the person receiving the highest num-
ber of votes cast at said meeting shall be entitled to have their name placed
upon the official ballot for the next town election as hereinbefore set forth,

REGISTRATION.

1906, ch. 382, sec. 184A3.

467. The Mayor and City Council of Midland shall cause to be made-
and maintain a registration of the legal voters of said town annually,
which registration shall be essential to the right of voting at any election
under this charter, but shall not be conclusive evidence of the right to
vote, and said Mayor and Council shall annually, on or before the third
Monday in April, appoint two persons as officers of registration, who
shall sit in public for two days from nine o'clock A. M. to twelve noon,
and from one o'clock P. M. to five o'clock P. M. and from seven o'clock
P. M. to nine o'clock P. M.; and the officers of registration shall give at
least one week's notice by publication in one or more newspapers or by
hand bills of the time and place of their sitting, which must not be less
than one week before the election, at which all the qualified voters as.
hereinafter prescribed may register; and the said officers of registration
before entering upon their duties shall take an oath before some justice
of the peace of Allegany County to permit every qualified voter and none
other, to register, and either of said registration officers shall have power
to do all things under this paragraph, in case one of them died or refused
to act; and upon the completion of the registration of voters, the said
officers of registration shall deliver to the judges of election a list of the
qualified voters so registered, and shall receive such compensation as the
Mayor and Council of said town shall determine.

MAYOR.

1906, ch. 382, sec. 184A4. 1908, ch. 629, sec. 184A4 (p. 332). 1924, ch. 144, sec. 184A4.

468. No person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor unless he has
attained the age of twenty-five years, and shall have resided in the town
limits of Midland, as prescribed in the plat and survey thereof on record
in the clerk's office of Allegany County, for three years next preceding
his election, and shall also be assessed on the tax books of the town of
Midland with an amount not less than two hundred dollars in real prop-
erty. The Mayor elected at any regular election shall hold office for one