WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4749
For Ward Number Four: Beginning at the intersection of the middle
of North Potomac Street with Franklin Street, and running thence, north-
wardly, along the middle of North Potomac Street and Potomac Avenue
and Potomac Avenue Extended and the Hagerstown-Leitersburg Turn-
pike to the northern boundary of the City; thence with the north and east
boundary lines of the City, eastward and southward, to intersect a straight
line drawn along the middle of Valentine Street and Valentine Street Ex-
tended, thence along the northern boundary line of Ward Number Three,
to the place of beginning
For Ward Number Five: Beginning at the intersection of the middle
of North Potomac Street with the middle of Franklin Street, and run-
ning thence, northward, along the middle of North Potomac Street, and
Potomac Avenue and Potomac Avenue Extended, and the Hagerstown-
Leitersburg Turnpike to the Northern boundary of the city; thence along
the north and west boundary lines of the city, westward and southward,
to the north boundary line of Ward Number One; thence along the north
boundary line of Ward Number One to the place of beginning.
And the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown is hereby authorized, em-
powered and directed by ordinance to subdivide all or any of said Wards
into as many Precincts as may be necessary to better facilitate the registra-
tion of the qualified voters of said city, setting forth in said ordinance the
metes and bounds, courses and distances of said Precincts.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 156. 1884, oh. 58. 1892, ch. 36. 1916, ch. 19.
1920, ch. 55. 1927, ch. 680, sec. 156.
231. The citizens of Hagerstown of the age of twenty-one years, and
upwards who shall be first duly registered as hereinafter prescribed and
who have resided in the State of Maryland and in said town for twelve
months preceding the election, shall on the fourth Monday of March, in
the year 1929, and not before, and upon the same day every four years
thereafter, elect by ballot a person not under twenty-five years of age, a
citizen of the United States, and five years a resident of said town as now
constituted (and as enlarged by Chapter 2-57 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland passed at its January Session 1914 next- preced-
ing the election), to be Mayor or said town; he shall take the oath of office
as hereinafter prescribed for town officers, and remain in office until his
successor is elected and qualified. All elections shall be by ballot, and no
person shall be entitled to vote at any election who is not duly registered
as hereinafter provided. And the term of the present Mayor is hereby
extended until said election in 1929.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 157. 1886, ch. 409. 1916, ch. 87.
232. In case of a vacancy in the office of Mayor, by death or otherwise,
or in case any person who may have been elected Mayor at any general
election, shall fail or refuse to qualify as Mayor within three days after
service of notice of election, as hereinafter provided, the Council, at any
general or special meeting shall elect some legally qualified person to fill
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