4542 ARTICLE 21.

any papers or documents recorded therein, and copies of any ordinances
set out in the ordinance books shall, when pertinent and relevant, be admis-
sible in evidence in any of the courts of the State or before any justice
of the peace thereof, when verified by a certificate signed by the town
clerk and authenticated by the corporate seal; provided, that the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Talbot county, when the extracts or copies are to
be used outside of said county, shall certify by his hand and the seal of
said court that the person who verifies said contract or copy is the town
clerk of Easton; and provided, that no extract shall be made by the town
clerk unless he embodies in the same all that the municipal records con-
tain about the matter in question; and provided further, that the said
town clerk, if called on for a copy of any ordinance shall, with the copy
of the ordinance asked, embrace any amendments that may have been
made thereto, or if the same has been repealed, he shall state the fact in
his certificate in the Circuit Court for Talbot county and before any jus-
tice of the peace of said county; the record books themselves may be offered
in evidence to prove any relevant or pertinent matter contained in the
same. The town clerk shall be entitled to receive at the rate of ten cents
for every hundred words embraced in any extract or copy made by him
from the records, to be paid for by the party who shall ask the same;
provided, that the minimum fee therefor shall be fifty cents; but no com-
pensation shall be paid for extracts or copies for the use or benefit of the
Mayor or Council; and at hours appointed by the Council the record books
shall be open for the inspection of any resident of Easton unless the same
be actually in use by the Mayor or Council or town clerk.

1906, ch. 458. sec. 45. 1908, ch. 41, sec. 45 (p. 1013). 1910, ch. 365, sec. 45 (p. 1169).

136. All elections shall be by ballot, and every male citizen of the age
of twenty-one years or upwards, who is a citizen of the United States and
who has been a bona fide resident of the town for one year next preceding
the election and whose name shall appear upon the list of registered voters
of the town, as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at all elections
hereafter to be held, but no person who has been convicted of larceny or
other infamous crime, unless pardoned by the Governor, shall ever be
entitled to vote at any town election, and no person under guardianship
as a lunatic or as a person "non compos mentis," shall be entitled to vote.

1910, ch. 365, sec. 45A (p. 1169). 1920, ch. 24.

137. The qualified voters of the Town of Easton, shall, on the first Mon-
day in May in the year 1920. at the Engine House, in said town, or such
other place or places as the Mayor and Council of Easton may designate,
elect a Mayor, whose term of office shall be for two years and until his suc-
cessor is qualified, and two members of the Council, one each from the first
and third wards, whose term of office shall also be for two (2) years; and
there shall also be elected, at the same time and place, by the said qualified
voters of Easton, a President of the Council, who shall be chosen at large,
and two members of the Council, one each from the second and fourth