1408 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Cn. 570

sembly of Maryland for the year 1941, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

45. Any inhabitant of Queen Anne's County of the
age of 21 years and qualified to vote for the members of
the General Assembly of Maryland and who is assessed
with one hundred dollars ($100.00) or more worth of real
estate or personal property on the tax books of the town
of Centreville and pays taxes thereon, and no others, shall
elect by ballot, on the first Monday of April, in the year
1948 three male residents of said town and holding real
estate in said town above the value of three hundred dollars,
as Town Commissioners thereof. At said election for Town
Commissioners to be held on the first Monday of April in
the year nineteen hundred and forty-eight, the Commis-
sioner receiving the highest number of votes shall hold
office for a period of 3 years, the one receiving the next
highest number of votes shall hold office for a period of 2
years, and the one receiving the next highest number of
votes shall hold office for a period of one year, and if at
said election there should be a tie between two or more
candidates with the highest number of votes, the one to
hold office for three years shall be publicly determined
by lot, after due notice unto the parties interested by the
Judge of Election; and if at said election there should be
a tie between two or more candidates with the next highest
number of votes, the one to hold office for two years shall
be publicly determined by lot, after due notice as aforesaid ;
and if at said election there should be a tie between two
or more candidates with the next highest number of votes
the one to hold office for one year shall be publicly deter-
mined by lot, after due notice as aforesaid. At the election
to be held on the first Monday of April in the year nineteen
hundred and forty-nine there shall be one commissioner
elected for a period of three years and one commissioner
for a like period each year thereafter. And at any time
before such an election is held the Town Commissioners
then in office shall appoint some justice of the peace of
Queen Anne's County residing in said town a judge of
election, who shall appoint a clerk to take down the votes
cast at said election; and the clerk aforesaid before he
proceeds to act as such shall take an oath before said justice
of the peace that he will truly, faithfully and impartially
take down the names of all such persons as shall be permit-
ted by the said judge to vote at said election. And said
judge of election shall have possession and custody of the
tax book of said town while any election as aforesaid is