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the qualifications hereinbefore set forth for Commissioners, who shall
serve for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified.
So that each year the duly qualified voters of the Town of Westernport
shall elect alternately one Mayor and two Commissioners and two Commis-
sioners, each of whom shall hold office for two years. And annually the
said Mayor and Commissioners at their first meeting, which shall be on
the first Monday in April, or as soon as possible thereafter, elect one
person to serve as Bailiff of said town until the first Monday in April in
the following year and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and
on the first Monday of April, 1922, they shall elect one person to serve as
clerk of said town, who shall serve for a term of two years and until his
successor is appointed and qualified, and thereafter biennially elect a clerk
of said town. The said Mayor and Commissioners shall have the power
to fill by appointment all vacancies occurring from death, removal, resig-
nation or any other cause, whether in the office of Mayor or Commissioners,
or in any other office provided for in this Act.

Westernport v. Green, 144 Md. 86.

1920, ch. 714, sec. 5.

643. The said Mayor and Commissioners, Clerk and Bailiff shall
qualify by taking and subscribing the following oath, to be administered
by some Justice of the Peace in Allegany County: "I, .................

do swear that I will execute the office of Mayor, Commissioners, Clerk or
Bailiff, of the Town of Westernport, as the case may be, to the best of my
ability, without favor, partiality or prejudice." Which oath shall be filed
among the records of the town.

1920, ch. 714, sec. 6.

644. The Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport shall cause to be
maintained a registration of the legal and qualified voters residing within
the corporate limits of the Town of Westernport; said registration shall
specify the residence of the voters on each street, lane and alley and such
further information as the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport may
consider necessary to show their qualifications as such voters, and such
registration shall be essential to the right to vote at any election held
under the charter of Westernport, the Mayor and Commissioners of West-
ernport shall annually on the first Monday in January, of each year ap-
point two persons, being citizens of the Town of Westernport and qualified
voters therein to act as officers of said registration and they shall sit for
the purpose of registering voters at the Council Chamber in said town or
at such other place as may be designated by the Mayor and Commissioners
on the first Monday in February in each year. They shall sit not less
than nine (9) hours and ten days' public notice of the said sitting shall be
given prior thereto by advertisement by way of hand bills posted in not
less than ten public places within the corporate limits of the Town of
Westernport. After causing the registration of the duly qualified voters,
they shall return the said list to the Mayor and Commissioners of West-
ernport. Before the said officers of registration shall sit for this purpose