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of the powers vested in them by this Act, at least thirty (30) days' notice
shall be given of any application which may be made to them for the pas-
sage of any such ordinance by such means as they may or shall prescribe
and by personal notice in writing served, by registered mail, twenty (20)
days before upon each property holder to be affected by the passage of
the proposed ordinance, provided that said parties are residents of Mary-
land.

GRANTSVILLE.

P. L. L., 188S, Art. 12, sec. 112. 1878, ch. 108. 1906, ch. 423, sec. 112.

205. The inhabitants of Grantsville, Garrett County, Maryland, are
hereby incorporated by the name of "The Mayor and Council of Grants-
ville," and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
may have and use a common seal, and may hold real, personal and mixed
property, when interest of the town may so demand.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec. 113. 1878, ch. 108. 1906, ch. 423, sec. 113.
1908, ch. 588 (p. 820).

206. The male citizens of said town of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, being citizens of the United States, and who have resided
in said town for six months next thereto preceding, shall elect by bal-
lot on the first Monday in April of the year 1908, a Mayor to serve
for two years or until his successor shall have been duly elected and
qualified; and five Councilmen, three to serve for one year and two to
serve for two years from the date of their election or until their suc-
cessors have been duly elected and qualified, and an election shall be
held thereafter every second year for the election of a Mayor to serve for
two years. And an election shall be held thereafter every year for an
election of two of three Councilmen, as the case may be, to serve for the
term of two years. The number of Councilmen thus to be elected to cor-
respond with the number of Councilmen whose terms expire at the time
of such election; in case of death, resignation or failure to qualify of any
party elected as Mayor or Councilman the corporate board (not less than
a quorum being present), shall fill such vacancy by the election of some
other qualified inhabitant of Grantsville to fill the unexpired term of the
party whose place shall thus have become vacant; the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen during their official term shall hold no other corporation office nor
be interested in any contract to which said corporation is a party, or
where the money for said contract is to be paid out of the corporation
treasury.

1906, ch, 423, sec. 114.

207. The Mayor and Council herein named shall have power to pass all
such ordinances as may be necessary to regulate the holding and conducting
of the elections herein provided for, or which may be hereafter author-
ized to be held, to appoint judges of election and clerks of election, and to
provide to whom and the mode and manner to which and in which the