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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Court for Allegany county against such officer, and
said court, or the judge thereof, if in vacation, shall

Show cause

pass an order requiring such officer to show cause

why office
should not be

why his office should not be vacated and a new election

vacated.

ordered, and such order shall be made returnable

not more than twenty days after its passage, and a

copv thereof shall be served on such officer, and if

he shall fail to answer the same said court or the

judge thereof, in vacation, shall hear and determine

such matter ex parte, and if such officer shall answer

the same, then said court or the judge thereof, in

vacation, shall at once hear and determine the issue

raised by said petition and answer, and shall declare

the office of said respondent vacant, and order a new

election to fill the same, or shall dismiss the petition,

as the proof may justify, and may award costs as

may appear equitable and right.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy-four of this General Assembly,

chapter one hundred, entitled "An act to amend the

charter of the city of Cumberland by repealing sec-

Repeal.

tions twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-
five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, thirty-

one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five,

thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty-seven,

forty eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-three,

fifty-four, fifty-five and fifty-six of article first of the

Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany

County," sub-title "City of Cumberland," as also

sub-sections one, two, three, four, five, six, eight,

nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,

sixteen and seventeen of chapter one hundred and

twenty-one of the acts of General Assembly passed

at January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,

entitled "An act to repeal sections twenty-three,

thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-five, fifty-
three and fifty-four of the first article of the Code of

Public Laws, and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, and insert additional sections relating to the

charter of the city of Cumberland, and to re-enact

the following instead thereof," be and the same is

hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the act of eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-six of this General Assem-

bly, chapter one hundred and thirty-six, entitled