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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Rules for

proper for the conduct and management of said library:

State

provided such rules and regulations be not inconsistent

Library.

.with law.

15. And the said judges of the Court of Appeals are

Vacancies

hereby authorized to fill any vacancy that may occur in the

committee by resignation or otherwise.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 421.

AN ACT to repeal sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,

14, 15 and 16, of an act of the General Assembly of

Maryland, passed at its January session, eighteen hun-

dred and eighty -eight, chapter two hundred and ninety-

five, entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Town of Hamp-

stead, Carroll County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Amend-

Maryland, That sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,

ments.

14, 15 and 16, of the act passed at its January session,

eighteen hundred and eighty -eight, entitled "An Act to

Incorporate the Town of Hampstead, Carroll County," be

and they are hereby repealed and the following sections

enacted in lieu thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all persons who have

resided within the corporate limits of said town for six

Mayor and
Council

months next preceding the election, and who are qualified

to vote for delegates to the General Assembly of Maryland,

shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in May, in each

and every year, one person, at least twenty-five years of

age, who is the owner of real estate or leasehold property

within the corporate limits of said town, and who has

resided in said town at least two years previous to said

election, mayor of said town ; and six persons, each

of whom shall be at least twenty-one years of age,

and shall have resided in said town at least one year

previous to said election, and be the owners of real estate

or leasehold property within the limits of said town, mem-

bers of the council.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That all elections for officers

Judges of
election.

shall be held by one or more judges of elections, who shall.

be appointed annually by the mayor and council of said