TALBOT COUNTY. 4647

non compos mentis shall be entitled to vote. The qualified voters shall
elect by ballot on the first Monday in April in each year, between the
hours of one and six o'clock P. M., one person, above the age of twenty-one
years and who has resided in the said town for over one year immediately
preceding said election, a Commissioner of said town, who shall serve for
three years.

1927, ch. 469, sec. 178A.

446. The town clerk shall be the supervisor of elections, and have such
powers and perform such duties as herein prescribed. There shall be a new
registration of voters of the town of St. Michaels before the election to be
held in April, 1928, and in every tenth year thereafter, at which registra-
tion the town clerk, acting as supervisor of elections, shall sit in the office of
the Commissioners, or such other convenient place as said Commissioners
may designate, during the hours from two to five o'clock P. M. on the
second and third Wednesdays and Thursdays of March preceding said
election. In those years in which there is to be no new registration the
said town clerk shall sit at the place designated on the same days and hours
for the purpose of registering voters and revising the registration books.
Should a special election at any time be held the Commissioners of St.
Michaels shall designate at least one day, not more than thirty days
before said election, on which the town clerk, sitting as a register of voters,
shall sit for the purpose of registering voters and revising the registration
list. 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 appeals from the board of registry in the election law of the'
State of Maryland. The town clerk shall register the names of such
voters in a book provided therefor, providing space for the entering of
the names, age, nativity, color, term of residence in town and State, street
residence, date of application, qualified voter or not, space to show why
disqualified and spaces to check when voted.

1927, ch. 469, sec. 178B.

447. The town clerk shall provide ballot boxes, ballots, registry books,
tally sheets and stationery of every description necessary and proper for
the registry of all voters and for the conduct of election, and the expenses
thereof shall be paid by the Commissioners of St. Michaels. Said Clerk
shall have the official ballot prepared and shall have printed thereon in
plain, legible type the names of the several candidates for Commis-
sioner, not less than six days preceding the date set for election, and
have the same published in at least one newspaper in Talbot County not
less than six days preceding said election, such names shall be grouped
and arranged alphabetically according to surname. The ballot shall be