1970 ARTICLE 8.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 132. 1880, ch. 43,5. 1890, ch. 623, sec. 132 1910, ch. 214,

sec. 132 (p. 723). 1912, ch. 683, sec. 132. 1914, ch. 71,

sec. 132. 1927, ch. 419, sec. 132.

173. On the fourth (4th) Monday in May, 1927, and every two (2)
years thereafter, the duly registered voters shall elect by ballot a presi-
dent who shall serve for two (2) years from said date, and until his suc-
cessor is duly elected and qualified, and shall, on said fourth Monday in
May, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, elect two (2) Com-
missioners who shall serve for two (2) years, and until said successors
are duly elected and qualified, and on said fourth Monday in May, and
every year thereafter, there shall be elected two (2) Commissioners to
serve for the term of two (2) years and until their successors are elected
and qualified, and no person shall be; entitled to have his or her name
placed on the ballot or be voted for as a candidate for President or Com-
missioner of said town who shall not have filed with the said President
and Town Commissioners, at least ten (10) days before the date on which
is to be held the election for said President and Commissioners, a certifi-
cate, under oath, setting forth for which office he or she is a candidate
and his or her qualifications therefor under the provisions of this Act,
or any amendments thereto; and the President and Commissioners shall
give ample public notice of any election to be held under this sub-title and
at least ten (10) days before the date of holding the same.

1910. ch. 214. sec. 132A (p. 723).

174. The President and Commissioners of said town shall annually
designate the time and place of holding said election, and give at least
fifteen days' notice thereof by notices set up at ten of the most prominent
places in the town; and at some meeting prior to the third Monday in
May in each year shall appoint two persons, one from each of the leading
political parties of the State, to act as judges of said election, who, before
acting as such, shall qualify in the same manner as judges of election for
State and county offices in this State are required to qualify before a
justice of the peace, and shall open the polls at two o'clock P. M. on the
third Monday in May in each year and close the same at six o'clock P. M.,
and the person voted for for President as aforesaid at said election who
shall receive the highest number of votes shall be President as aforesaid,
and the person in number, according to the preceding section, voted for
at said election for Commissioners for said town who shall, respectively,
receive the highest number of votes shall be Commissioners, as aforesaid.

1912, ch. 683. sec. 132B. 1914, ch. 71, sec. 132B.

175. The provisions, prohibitions and penalties prescribed in Chapter
122 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1908, relating
to corrupt practices at general and primary elections are hereby declared
to be applicable to all elections held by virtue of the authority given in
this Article, and to be applicable to the acts of all persons in connection