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duly executed shall be receivable for corporation taxes which may be pay-
able by the legal holder thereof.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 4.

310. The said Commissioners of Highland Beach shall at least ten
days prior to the said last Saturday in July, 1923, give notice by posting
the same in at least two public places in the said town of Highland Beach

of their intention to carry out the provisions of this Act relative to the
annual election, and prior to said election in that year and in each year
thereafter, they shall appoint three citizens of said town of Highland
Beach to act as judges of said election, who before acting as such shall
take the general oath prescribed by Section 6 of Article 1 of the Consti-
tution of Maryland, and shall qualify in the same manner prescribed for
judges of State and county elections in the State; and the said judges shall
lave power to appoint two competent persons to act as clerks to said elec-
tion who shall qualify as provided by existing law for clerks of election,
and shall perform their duties in the same manner as is therein prescribed.
The polls shall be opened at three o'clock P. M. and close at eight o'clock
P. M., on such election days; and the said judges shall within three days
after each election, notify the persons who shall have received the greatest
number of legal votes of their election, and shall make return of such elec-
tion and shall deposit their polls as directed by the ordinances of said
Board of Commissioners; and the same persons who shall respectively
receive the highest number of votes shall be the Commissioners for the
said town for the ensuing year, or until their successors are duly elected
and qualified. And the elections held in such town shall not be required
to be conducted in conformity to the requirements of Chapter 202, Article
33 of the Acts of 1896, or any amendments thereto.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 5.

311. If it shall happen that any of the persons voted for and duly

elected, shall from any cause fail to qualify, then and in that case, the
person receiving the next highest number of votes shall be deemed to have
been elected, and shall be so informed by the judges of election, and shall
thereupon be entitled to qualify as one of said Commissioners.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 6.

312. In case of death, resignation, refusal to act or disqualification of
any Commissioner, the remaining Commissioners, not less than a quorum,
shall choose some person duly qualified and eligible a Commissioner for
the unexpired term.

1922, ch. 213, sec. 7.

313. The said Dr. Milton A. Francis, Osborn T. Taylor, Edwin B.
Henderson, Haley G. Douglass and Eula Rose Grey, hereinbefore ap-
pointed Commissioners of the said town, shall meet within thirty days
from the passage of this Act, and take the oath of office prescribed before