JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 739

at the polls for said district by the qualified voters
of such district and none other ; the elections shall
be held at such place in each of such districts as the	Judges to pre-
judges of election of the district may prescribe, and	scribe places
the polls shall be kept open from nine o'clock in the	of election.
morning until five o clock in the afternoon.
85. The Board of Common Council of said city,
at the end of the official year for which the Council-
men were elected, on the fourth Monday of Febru-	When abol-
ary, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, shall be	ished.
discontinued and abolished, and thereupon all the
legal powers, duties and functions now possessed by the said Common Council as a separate board, or ex-
ercised by it conjointly with the Board of Aldermen
for said city, shall be vested in and exercised by the
Board of Aldermen alone ; and upon and after the
discontinuance and abolition of the Common Council
as aforesaid, the corporate name of the citizens of	Corporate name.
Frederick, as a body corporate, shall be " The Mayor
and Aldermen of Frederick," and by that name they
shall possess and exercise the same corporate powers, rights and functions, and remain subject to the same
duties, liabilities and obligations as they now do and
are as the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council
of Frederick.
87. SUB-SEC. 1. The Governor shall annually, be- fore the tenth day of December, appoint one person	Appoint registration
as officer of registration in each aldermanic district	officer.
of Frederick city, who shall be a resident of the dis-
trict for which he is appointed, and the said officer
of registration shall register in a book to be prepared
for the purpose, all male citizens above the age of
twenty-one years, who shall have the requisite qual-
ifications to entitle them to vote for Mayor and Al-
dermen. Every male person, who shall be a citizen
of the United States, and who shall have resided
within the State of Maryland for twelve months,
and in the aldermanic district wherein he offers to
register six months next preceding the election, shall
be entitled to be registered ; provided always that
where any person shall be legally registered in any
of said districts, and shall remove therefrom to any
other of said districts, and remain therein, he shall be
entitled to have his name remain on the registry list
of the district from which he shall remove as afore-