ART. 1.] ALLEGANY COUNTY.

property therein to the value of five hundred dollars,
mayor of the town of Frostburg.

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75. Sub-Sec. 1. The persons qualified, as required
by the preceding section, shall also, at the same time
and place, elect six persons, who shall have resided in
said town one year next preceding said election, and
who shall be assessed on the books of said town, to a
sum not less than one hundred dollars, as councilmen
of said town.

Ibid s. 4
Election of
councilmen.

Sub-Sec. 2. John C. Weis, Owen Kitchens and
John Hawking are appointed judges of election, to
hold the first election under this act, and immedi-
ately after the passage of this act, they thall give at
least five days notice of the time at which said election
shall be held ; at which election all persons qualified,
as prescribed in the third and fourth sections of this
act, shall be entitled to vote for one person for mayor,
and six persons for councilmen of said town; and the
said judges of election, before opening the polls, shall
take an oath before some justice of the peace in said
town, to permit every qualified person to vote, and
none other, and a majority of said three judges shall
have power to do all things under this section, in case
one of them dies or refuses to act ; and the mayor and
councilmen then elected shall immediately qualify and

Ibid. s 5.
First election.

serve until the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred
and seventy-one, or until their successors shall qualify;
all future mayors and councilmen elected according to
the preceding sections, shall qualify by the first Mon-
day in May, and take possession of their offices the
first Monday in May each year.

Term of office.

Sub-Sec. 3. The mayor and councilmen of the town
of Frostburg for each succeeding election shall appoint
three judges of election, who shall have power to ap-
point clerks and conduct the elections in all respects as
the elections for members of the general assembly are
required to be conducted, opening the polls at nine
o'clock in the morning, and closing them at six o'clock
in the evening ; and the said judges and clerks shall
receive the same compensation as judges and clerks of

Ibid s 6
Subsequent
elections.