2456 AKTICLE 11.

1910, ch. 79, sec. 109. 1918 Code, sec. 164.

153. The male citizens of Emmitsburg, above twenty-one years of age

who shall have resided in said town for twelve months next preceding the

election shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in May, in the year
1910, a Burgess for the term of one year, and also shall elect three Com-

missioners, one for the term of one year, one for the term of two years

and one Commissioner for the term of three years, so that the Board of

Commissioners shall always consist of three members, but not more than
two Commissioners shall be on the Board of Commissioners from the
same precinct of Election District No. 5, of Frederick County, at the same

time, and the Burgess and each of the said Commissioners shall be above
the age of twenty-five years and shall be a, resident and citizen of the said
town at least twelve months immediately prior to his election, and shall

reside therein during his term of office, and shall hold real estate in said
town at the time of his election and during his term of office of the value
of not less than five hundred dollars, and the judges of election, imme-
diately after the polls close on the day of election, shall count and canvass
the vote cast and make out and sign two certificates of the result of said

election, giving the number of votes cast, for whom cast and the number

of spoiled ballots, and on the following day they shall return one of the
said certificates, with all ballots cast at said election, to the president of

the Board of Commissioners, who shall keep the same for three months
thereafter, and on the same day they shall return the other certificate thus

made out, with the list of those voting at said election, to the Burgess of
the town, who shall within five days after receiving the same, notify the

candidates thus elected of their said election.

1922, ch. 131.

154. Female citizens of the town of Emmitsburg, above twenty-one

years of age who shall have resided in said town for twelve months next,
preceding a town election, shall be qualified to register as voters of said

town and to vote in town elections the same as male citizens of the said

town.

1910, ch. 70, sec. 110. 1918 Code, sec. 165.

155. All elections shall be held by ballot, and in such manner as shall

from time to time be directed by ordinance, and ten days before the elec-
tion the Burgess, with the consent and approval of the Commissioners,
shall appoint two judges to conduct the same, who shall keep the polls

open from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., which shall be the hours for sitting for

the register of voters on the days of registration in 1910, and the day of

annual registration and revision thereafter; and on the first Monday in
April in the year 1910, the Burgess, with the consent and approval of the
Board of Commissioners, shall appoint a register of voters for said town,
who shall sit on the 3rd and 4th Tuesdays of April in said year to regis-
ter the voters of said town, and notice shall be given of said sittings by

the said Burgess by publication in sonic; newspaper published in said

town, or by handbills, of the time and place of said sittings, ten days