FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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next preceding said election as councilmen of said town, to

serve for two years ; provided, however that the three

councilmen elected at the election held in the year eighteen

hundred and ninety-one, shall serve until the expiration of

the term for which they were then elecsed, and until their

successors qualify, and the mayor and councilmen so

elected shall qualify on or before the fourth Tuesday in

May, and shall enter upon the duties of their offices on the

first Tuesday in June of each year.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That mayor and councilmen

of Lonaconing shall cause to be maintained a registration

Registra-

of the legal voters of said town, and the registration here-

tion.

tofore made, shall, together with such additions, changes

and alterations as may be or become necessary, constitute

such registration ; said registration shall be made and

corrected substantially in the manner provided in the Code

of Public General Laws, title "Elections," sub-title " Regis-

tration," and such registration shall be essential to the

right of voting at any election under this charter, but

shall not be conclusive evideuce of such right to vote ; and

said mayor and councilmen shall annually on or before the

first Tuesday in April, appoint three persons as officers of

registration who shall sit at the council chamber for two

days, from nine o'clock a. m. to twelve noon, and from one

o'clock p. m. to five p. m., and from seven o'clock p. m. to

nine p. m., and the said officers of registration shall give

at least one week's notice by publication in one or more

newspapers, or by handbills, of the time and place of their

sitting at which all qualified voters as hereinbefore pre-

scribed may register ; and the said officers of registration

before entering upon their duties shall take an oath before

some justice of the peace of said town, to permit every

qualified person, and none other, to register ; and 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 ; and upon the completion of the registry of voters

the said officers of registration shall deliver to the judges

of election the list of qualified voters so registered : and

the said officers of registration shall receive the compensa-

tion decided upon by the mayor and conncilmen of said

town to be paid by said town.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the mayor and councilmen

shall annually appoint three judges of election, who before

opening the polls shall take an oath before some justice of

Judges of

the peace in said town, to permit every qualified person to

election.

vote and none other, and in the event of the failure of one

or more of the judges of election so appointed to attend at