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ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That sections one hundred and ninety, one hundred and ninety-
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two, one hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and ninety-four,
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one hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and ninety-six, one
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hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-eight, one
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hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and one, two hundred and
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two, two hundred and six, two hundred and seven, two hundred
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and eight, two hundred and nine, two hundred and ten, two hun-
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dred and eleven, two hundred and nineteen, two hundred and
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Repeal.
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twenty, two hundred and twenty-one, two hundred and twenty-
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two, two hundred and twenty-three, two hundred, and twenty-
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four, two hundred and twenty-five, two hundred and twenty-
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eight, two hundred and twenty-nine, two hundred and thirty, two
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hundred and thirty-two, two hundred and thirty-three, two hun-
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dred and thirby-four, two hundred and thirty-six, two hundred
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and thirty-seven, and two hundred and forty-five, of article seven-
teen, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled " Prince George's
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county," sub-title " Laurel," be and the same is hereby repealed
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and re-enacted so that said sections shall read as follows ;
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SEC. 190. The citizens of the town of Laurel, in Prince George's
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county, are a body corporate by the name of the mayor and city
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Body cor-
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council of Laurel, and by that name may have perpetual succes-
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porate.
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sion, sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal.
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SEC. 192. The government of said town shall be after the next
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election, vested in a mayor and nine councilmen, to be selected
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To vest
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as hereinafter provided.
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SEC. 193. The male citizens of said town of the age of twenty-
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one years and upwards, who shall possess the qualifications of
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legally registered voters of the State, and who shall have actually
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resided in said town for the space of six months next preceding
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the first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall
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elect on that day at such places as shall be selected for holding
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of elections, one person, a legal voter of said town, who has re-
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sided therein for one year at least, next preceding the election, to
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be mayor of said town, and three persons in each of the wards
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Election
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herein provided for, who shall possess the same qualifications and
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be residents of the wards for which they shall be chosen by the
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voters of said wards, to be city councilmen of said town; and
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annually thereafter on the first Monday of April, such citizens
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shall elect one person having the qualifications above described
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to be mayor; provided, that one of such conncilmen shall at the
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first election held under the provisions of this section, be elected
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for the term of two years, such person to be voted for upon a
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ticket to be designated "to serve for two years," in each ward,
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and two persons at said election shall be elected from each ward
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to serve one year; and annually thereafter the elections for coun-
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cilmen shall be as follows : in odd numbered years there shall be
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