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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

elected two persons from each ward as councilmen to serve for

two years, and in even numbered years there shall be elected one

person from each ward as councilmen to serve two years; the

said town of Laurel shall be divided into three wards as follows :

ward number one shall embrace all of said town lying westerly

Wards.

of a line drawn from the southerly limits of the town at a point

where the westerly line of Church street intersects said limits

running northerly along the westerly Hue of Church street to

Main street, and thence in a straight line by the same course to

the Patuxent river; ward number two shall embrace all of said

town between the above mentioned line and a line drawn from a

point in the southerly limits of said town where the westerly line

of Fourth street intersects it, northerly to Main street along said

line of Fourth street; thence to the westerly side of Race street,

and thence to the Patuxent river by the course of the westerly

line of Eace street; ward number three shall embrace all the

residue of said town lying easterly of the last above mentioned

lines.

SEC. 194. The first election hereunder shall be held at such

places as the present commissioners of Laurel may designate,

after at least ten days' public notice of the same given by them,

and three judges and two clerks thereof shall be designated and

appointed by them in each of said wards ten days prior thereto ;
and at said first election and the elections thereafter, which shall

Election.

be held upon notice and under the authority of the mayor and

city council, the polls shall be kept open at such places in each

ward as shall be designated as to the first election by the present

commissioners of Laurel, and thereafter by the mayor and city

council, from two o'clock, p. m., to seven o'clock, p. m., when

they shall be closed and the ballots publicly counted, and the

said judges shall within two days after said election, make a true

and correct return of the same under their hands to be addressed

and transmitted, as to the first election, to the president of the

commissioners and thereafter to the mayor, who shall convene

the commissioners, or mayor and city council, as the case may be,

on the second day after the election to receive the returns of the

same.

SEC. 195. At such meeting of the commissioners or of the

mayor and city council, as the case may be, the returns shall be

opened by the presiding officer, and certificates of election shall

Returns.

forthwith be issued by the clerk to the person appearing to be

elected as mayor, and to each person appearing to be elected as

councilmen by having received the highest number of votes, and

said certificates shall be recorded among the proceedings.

SEC. 396. If at any election it shall appear from the returns of

Tie vote.

the judges of election that any two or more persons voted for as

mayor or city councilman have received the same number of votes,