ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,

That sections one hundred and ninety, one hundred and ninety-

two, one hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and ninety-four,

one hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and ninety-six, one

hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-eight, one

hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and one, two hundred and

two, two hundred and six, two hundred and seven, two hundred

and eight, two hundred and nine, two hundred and ten, two hun-

dred and eleven, two hundred and nineteen, two hundred and

Repeal.

twenty, two hundred and twenty-one, two hundred and twenty-

two, two hundred and twenty-three, two hundred, and twenty-

four, two hundred and twenty-five, two hundred and twenty-

eight, two hundred and twenty-nine, two hundred and thirty, two

hundred and thirty-two, two hundred and thirty-three, two hun-

dred and thirby-four, two hundred and thirty-six, two hundred

and thirty-seven, and two hundred and forty-five, of article seven-
teen, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled " Prince George's

county," sub-title " Laurel," be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so that said sections shall read as follows ;

SEC. 190. The citizens of the town of Laurel, in Prince George's

county, are a body corporate by the name of the mayor and city

Body cor-

council of Laurel, and by that name may have perpetual succes-

porate.

sion, sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal.

SEC. 192. The government of said town shall be after the next

election, vested in a mayor and nine councilmen, to be selected

To vest

as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 193. The male citizens of said town of the age of twenty-

one years and upwards, who shall possess the qualifications of

legally registered voters of the State, and who shall have actually

resided in said town for the space of six months next preceding

the first Monday of April, eighteen hundred and ninety, shall

elect on that day at such places as shall be selected for holding

of elections, one person, a legal voter of said town, who has re-

sided therein for one year at least, next preceding the election, to

be mayor of said town, and three persons in each of the wards

Election

herein provided for, who shall possess the same qualifications and

be residents of the wards for which they shall be chosen by the

voters of said wards, to be city councilmen of said town; and

annually thereafter on the first Monday of April, such citizens

shall elect one person having the qualifications above described

to be mayor; provided, that one of such conncilmen shall at the

first election held under the provisions of this section, be elected

for the term of two years, such person to be voted for upon a

ticket to be designated "to serve for two years," in each ward,

and two persons at said election shall be elected from each ward

to serve one year; and annually thereafter the elections for coun-

cilmen shall be as follows : in odd numbered years there shall be