TALBOT COUNTY. 4543

wards, whose terms of office shall be for four (4) years and until the
qualifications of their successors; and at the expiration of the term of the
said Mayor, President and members of the Council, their successors shall
be elected to serve for a term of four (4) years and until the qualification

of their successors.*

1906, oh. 458, sec. 46.

138. The town clerk herein provided for shall be the Supervisor of
Elections, and have such powers and perform such duties as herein pre-
scribed. There shall be a new registration of the voters of the town of
Easton before the election to be held in May, 1906, and in every tenth year
thereafter, at which registration the town clerk acting as Supervisor of
Elections shall sit in the Council room during the hours from 2 to 5 P. M.
and from 7 to 9 P. M., on the first and second Wednesdays and Thursdays
of April. In those years in which general elections are to be held, and in
which there is to be no new registration, the town clerk shall sit at the
same place and hours herein provided, on the second Tuesday and Wed-
nesday of April, for the purpose of registering and revising the registration
books. Should a special election be ordered, the Mayor and Council shall
name at least two days, not more than thirty days before said election, on

which the town clerk, sitting as a register of voters, shall sit for the pur-
pose of registering and revising the registration lists. Any person who
feels aggrieved by the action of the town clerk in refusing to register him
as a qualified voter, or in erasing or misspelling his name, or that of any
other person on the registry or in registering or failing to erase the name of
any fictitious, deceased or disqualified person, may at any time, either
before or after the last sitting of the town clerk, but no later than Monday
after said last sitting of the town clerk, file an appeal in the Circuit Court
for Talbot county, in the same manner as is provided in the case of ap-
peals from the board of registry in the election law of the State of Mary-
land. The town clerk shall immediately make out a true list of all the
names which he has erased from the registry, and post one in front of the
Council rooms and one in front of the court-house door in the town of
Easton, and he shall sit at the Council room, on the Monday and Tuesday
following the last day of registration from 7 P. M. to 9 P. M., and shall
have there the registry of voters for the purpose of inspection by any
alleged or qualified voter.

1906, ch. 458, sec. 47.

139. All nominations for office must be filed with the town clerk at
least two weeks before the election; the manner of nominating candidates,
shall be as follows: Every aspirant for the office of Mayor and of presi-
dent of the Council, or some one on his behalf shall on or before the last
day for receiving nominations file with the town clerk nomination papers
for said office, in writing, signed by at least thirty of the qualified voters
of said town, and no signature shall be counted if it shall be upon the nomi-

*Sec. 2, ch. 24, 1920, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.