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1916, ch. 495, sec. 220. 1920 Code, sec. 256. 1927, ch. 446, sec. 256.

199. The male and female citizens of Pocomoke City above the age of
twenty-one years, being citizens of the United States, who have resided.
within the corporate limits of said town six months next preceding the
election and who were qualified voters at the last State or Congressional
election, shall on the first Tuesday in April, nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, and on the same day every second year thereafter, elect by ballot
one person to be Mayor of said town and also on the first Tuesday in April,
nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, elect by ballot one person to be Coun-
cilman of said town and on the same day in every year thereafter the
said qualified citizens of Pocomoke City shall elect by ballot one person
to be Councilman to succeed the Councilman whose term of office is then
about to expire. Provided that nothing in this Act shall in any way affect
the term of office of the present Mayor and the present members of the
Council.

1927, ch. 446, sec. 256A.

200. Offiical ballots shall be prepared and printed for such town elec-
tions by the Mayor and Council and they shall cause to be printed on
said official ballots the names of all candidates for office to be voted for,
who shall become duly qualified by the payment of the sum of five dol-
lars to and the filing of a certificate in writing with, the town clerk of
Pocomoke City, containing the name of the person seeking office, his or
her address and the office for which he or she seeks to be elected and duly
acknowledged by the person filing such certificate before an officer duly
authorized to take acknowledgments, who shall append a certificate of
such acknowledgment. All certificates must be filed and payments made
by candidates as aforesaid not less than twenty days before said town
election.

1906, ch. 549. 1920 Code, sec. 257. 1927, ch. 446, sec. 257.

201. The Mayor shall publish in some newspaper of general circula-
tion in said town at least ten days prior to the date of each election for
town officers notice thereof, stating the day and hour of opening and clos-
ing the polls, the place of polling and the officers to be voted for, and he
shall also appoint three citizens, qualified voters of said town, to act as
judges of said election; and said judges of election before entering upon
the discharge of their duties shall take and subscribe before the Mayor
the same oath required by Article 1, Section 6, of the Constitution of
Maryland; one of the judges shall act as clerk; the polls shall be opened
at 9 o'clock A. M. and close at 4 o'clock P. M., and the names of all the
persons voting shall be registered by said clerk, and the said judges shall
make immediate return under their hands of the number of votes cast
and for whom cast, with a certificate of their appointment, and both signed
by the Mayor and town clerk, and with the corporate seal of the town
affixed, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County, who shall
record the same at once and issue certificates of election to those persons