ALLEGANY COUNTY. 67

The Mayor of Frostburg, elected by the qualified voters of said Town
at the election held on the first Tuesday of April, 1925, for a term .of
office heretofore fixed by law at two years; shall hold office for an addi-
tional year and there shall be no election held on the first Tuesday of
April, 1927, for the election of said Mayor, it being the intent and pur-
pose of this provision that the term of the Mayor and all the Councilmen
of said Town shall expire at one and the same time and that hereafter
general elections in said Town for the purpose of electing the Mayor and
Councilmen shall be conducted every two years instead of every year.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 135. 1886, ch. 166. 1902, ch. 88, sec. 135.
1927, ch. 195, sec. 135.

191. There shall be four Councilmen all of whom shall be elected
on the first Tuesday of April in the year 1928, and biennially thereafter
by the persons qualified to vote for Mayor as prescribed by the preceding
section and each Councilman so elected shall hold office for two years.
Either men or women possessing the qualifications hereafter set forth,
shall be eligible to hold said office. Said Councilmen shall be citizens of
the United States, residents of the said Town for one year next preceding
their election, and qualified to vote at such election in the Ward in which
they reside; they shall at the time of their election and during their full
term of office each own real estate in said Town of the assessed value of
at least three hundred dollars; provided that nothing herein contained
shall affect the Councilmen whose term of office has not yet expired. The
three Councilmen of Frostburg; elected bv the qualified voters of said Town

at the election held on the first Tuesday of April, 1925, for a term of
office hereto fixed by law at two years, shall hold office for an additional
year, and there shall be no election held on the first Tuesday of April,
1927, for the election of said three Councilmen, it being the intent and
purpose of this provision that the terms of the Mayor and all the Council-
men of said Town shall expire at one and the same time and that here-
after general elections in said Town for the purpose of electing the Mayor
and four Councilmen shall be conducted every two years instead of every
year.

The Mayor and four Councilmen so constituted shall have control and
supervision over all the departments of the said City, and to that end
shall have power to make and enforce such rules and regulations as they
may see fit and proper for and concerning the organization, management
and operation of all the departments of said City, and whatever agencies
may be created for the administration of its affairs. The Mayor and four
Councilmen, shall, by a majority vote, elect from among the four Coun-
cilmen one who shall be known as "Police and Fire Commissioner," and
who shall have under his special charge the enforcement of all police regu-
lations in said City and general supervision over the Fire Department
thereof; one Commissioner to be known as the "Commissioner of Streets
and Public Property," who shall have under his special charge the super-
vision of streets, sewers, alleys, public grounds and property of said City,