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voters, to conduct the election in each of said wards; provided
that whenever there is only one candidate nominated for Mayor
and only one candidate is nominated for Councilman in any
ward of the city the election for such offices shall be held in sucli
ward or wards as the said Mayor and Council shall direct, and
judges and clerks shall be appointed to conduct the election
only in the wards in which elections are so directed to be
held. The judges and clerks of any ward in which the said
Mayor and City Council shall direct the election of any other
ward or wards to be held, shall, in addition to conducting
the election in the ward for which they are appointed, conduct
the election for such other ward or wards. The polls shall be
open from the hour of nine o'clock A. M., to the hour of nine
o'clock P. M., when they shall be closed, and no ballots shall
be deposited in the ballot box after that time. The said
judges and clerks shall conduct such elections, canvass the
ballots and certify the results in the manner prescribed by
the General Election Laws of this State for State and County
elections, except that such judges and clerks shall within
twenty-four hours after the closing of the polls in each elec-
tion deliver into the hands of the Mayor one certificate or
return of the result of the canvass of the ballots cast in the
election, together with the tally sheet, and shall deliver
another certificate or return of the result of said canvass, to-
gether with the other tally sheet, into the hands of the Presi-
dent of the Council, and shall deliver the ballot box contain-
ing the ballots, properly sealed, to the Clerk of the Council
in person.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 226.
(House Bill 200)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
755 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's
County (1943 Flack's Edition), sub-title "Hyattsville", pro-