2756 ARTICLE 12.

of said city for two years from, the passage of this Act, ending the first
Wednesday after the first Tuesday in February in 1906, and that Wm.
H. H. Friend, Allen J. Mason and Arthur Chishom be and the same are
hereby named and designated as the Councilmen for the first two years
from the passage of this Act, ending on the first Wednesday after the first
Tuesday in February, 1906; and that Frederick G. Fox, John W. Mc-
Cullough and Geo. J. Kolb are hereby named as Councilmen to serve for
the one year from the passage of this Act, ending on the first Wednesday
after the first Tuesday in February, 1905; and hereafter an election shall
be held on the first Tuesday in February in each and every year for the
election of three Councilmen to serve for two years from the date of their
election or until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. And
an election shall be held on the first Tuesday in February, 1906, for the
election of Mayor of said town to serve for two years or until his suc-
cessor shall be duly elected and qualified, and an election shall be held
thereafter in every second year for the election of a Mayor for the said
town.

1904, ch. 300, sec. 111C 1/2.

188. The Mayor and the Council therein named shall have power to
pass all such ordinances for conducting the election herein provided for,
or which may be hereafter authorized to be held, and shall make return
thereof to the clerk of the Circuit Court of Garrett County. And the
qualified voters of any of said elections shall be bona fide male residents;
shall be twenty-one years of age or over, of said town of Friendsville, who
have been residents of the State for the period of one year and of said
town for the period of six months continuously next before the date of
any such election; and that no one shall be eligible for the office of Mayor
or Councilman of said town unless he shall be a real estate owner or hus-
band of a bona fide real estate owner in the said town. And the Mayor
shall have been a resident of said town for three years previous to his
election, and the Councilmen shall have been residents of said town two
years prior to their election.

1904, ch. 300, sec. 111D. 1922, ch. 63. 1924, ch. 60.

189. The Mayor and Council may from time to time cause an assess-
ment to be made of all the property liable to state and county taxes within
the corporate limits and to levy a tax thereon not exceeding one dollar
on the one hundred dollars in any one year, and said property shall be
assessed at its actual cash value, and that the lands included within the
above named corporate limits which have not been laid out as town lots
or as town property shall be exempt from taxation with the exception of
the buildings and personal effects thereon. And the said Council may
appoint an assessor and collector of taxes and fix his salary or compensa-
tion, and provide for a method of collecting the taxes by ordinances and
also the method of making assessments, and any person aggrieved by any
assessment made under this provision shall have the right of appeal to