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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

quired by the preceding section shall also at the same time and

place elect six persons, who shall have resided in said town six

Council

. months next preceding said election, as councilmen of said town,

men.

the three receiving the highest number of votes to serve two years

and the three receiving the next highest votes to serve one year,

three conncilmen to be«elected each succeeding year to serve a

term of two years.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That Elijah Gould, James Martin

August Eichhorn, sr., be and they are hereby appointed officers

of registration to hold the first registration of voters under this

act, and that immediately after the passage of this act they shall

give at least one week's notice of the time and place during which

all qualified voters as prescribed within the third and fourth sec-

Officers of

Registra-

tions of this act may register, and the said officers of registration.

tion.

shall take an oath before some justice of the peace of said town

to permit every qualified person to register and none other; a

majority of said registration officers shall have power to do all

things under this section in case one of them dies or refuses to

act; that upon the completion of the registry of voters the officers

herein named shall give the judges of election herein named the-

list of voters so registered.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That Hugh Muir, John Ryan and

James W. Bishop be and they are hereby appointed judges of

election to hold the first election under this act, and that imme-

diately after the passage of this act they shall give at least five

Judges of

days' notice of the time at which said election shall be held, at

election.

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 serve

until the fourth Tuesday of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-

Qualify.

one, or until their successors qualify; all future mayors and couu-

cilmen elected according to the preceding sections shall qualify

by the fourth Tuesday in April and take possession of their offices,

the fourth Tuesday in April each year.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the mayor and councilmen of

the town of Lonaconing for each succeeding election shall ap-

point three judges of election, who shall have power to appoint.

Powers.

clerks and conduct the elections in all respects as the election.

for members of the General Assembly are required to be con-

ducted, opening the polls at nine o'clock in the morning and

closing them at six o'clock in the evening; and said judges and