2618 ARTICLE 11.

H. Mowen Daniel V. Harp and Daniel Shepley are hereby appointed
judges for that purpose with fully powers and authority to conduct said
elections; and if any said judges shall be absent on the day appointed for
said election, the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by the judge or judges
present. All elections thereafter shall be held and conducted as shall
from time to time be directed by the ordinances of the corporation not
inconsistent with the subtitle of this Article.

1908, ch. 513, sec. 5. 1918 Code, sec. 594.

617. The burgess shall qualify by taking and subscribing the oath of
office before the clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick County, or before
one of his sworn deputies and before proceeding to act shall give bond to
the burgess and council of Myersville, with securities to be approved by
the councilmen, in the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) for the faithful
discharge of his duties; and the councilmen and all other officers of said
corporation, before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties,
shall severally take and subscribe before the burgess an oath that they
will faithfully discharge the duties of their respective offices, without
partiality. If the persons elected burgess and councilmen, respectively,
or any of them, shall fail to take the oath as prescribed in this section
within ten days after notice of their election shall have been communi-
cated to them in writing by the person who, under the ordinances of the
town may be appointed to hold such election, the said person or persons
so appointed, within five days thereafter, shall order an election to fill
the vacancy or vacancies caused by such failure to qualify.

1908, ch. 513, sec. 6. 1918 Code, sec. 595.

618. The burgess and councilmen may meet as often as the business
of the corporation may require, at which meeting the burgess shall pre-
side; and if, during the year for which they have been elected, any of
the councilmen, or if the burgess, shall die, resign or remove from said
town, an election shall be called by the burgess, or in the event of his
death or resignation, by the councilmen, to fill the vacancy, at which
elections all persons qualified under Section 615 of this subtitle shall be
entitled to vote; said person or persons to hold office until the next general
election. In the event of the death, resignation, removal or disqualifi-
cation of the burgess, the councilmen shall select one of their own number
to serve as burgess until the vacancy is filled as herein provided; the
councilmen at their first meeting after their election and qualification shall
select one of their own number as burgess pro tempore to act as burgess
in case of the temporary absence or indisposition of the burgess, and who
shall, while so acting, have and exerciise all the powers of the burgess
conferred by this Article. The burgess shall call meetings of the burgess
and councilmen whenever the business of the corporation may require,
and he shall also call a meeting upon the application to him of any two
of the councilmen.