590 LAWS OP MARYLAND. [CH. 341

sections described in Section 36, supra, desire to incorporate
and adopt this charter there shall be held a referendum elec-
tion for the purpose of determining which ward or wards or
ward sections aforesaid shall be incorporated by adoption of
this charter, which election shall be held on or before the first
day of August, 1947, in a place provided by the Ward Com-
mittees within the boundaries for which each are appointed,
under the supervision, of said ward committees hereafter
named, the manner and procedure of which shall be as follows:

The Committees to conduct such referendum election shall
consist of Edward Hon, William Dalley, and Dudley Taylor
for Ward I; F. B. Fitzgerald, H. W. Wegner, and Harry H.
Kercheval for Ward II; Mrs. Francis J. Yeck, Mrs. Harvey C.
Stanley, and James C. Hayes for Ward III, Sunnybrook sec-
tion, and James R. Walcroft, James A. Mahoney, and Char-
lotte C. Walkendifer for Ward III, Villa Heights section;
and Frank Fierstein, Samuel Miller and Paul Kidwell, Jr., for
Ward IV, who shall act as a Board of Election Supervisors
or Judges in their respective ward or ward sections,
under the general supervision of F. Headley Gasch, who
shall be the Town Election Supervisor, and they shall
have the same duties, powers and authority as is pro-
vided for Supervisors or Judges of Election in this charter,
and if any of said Committee are unable or decline to serve,
the remaining members of said Committee appointed for the
ward or ward section affected are empowered to select some
resident of their designated ward area to fill his place. If
the aforesaid Town Election Supervisor is unable or declines
to serve then the Ward Supervisors shall select some resident
from the town at large to fill his place.

The qualifications of voters in the referendum election shall
be the same as those set forth for General Town Elections
provided for in the Charter enacted by this Act.

The said Ward Committees shall provide registration books,
booths, ballot boxes, tally sheets, printed ballots and places
of registration and election, and shall not later than the 10th
day of July, 1947, post in five conspicuous places in their
respective ward areas a typewritten or printed notice notify-
ing all residents of the proposed town that a referendum
election will be held at a place and on a date named therein
to determine whether or not this Act shall become effective,
and also notifying them of the qualifications for voting.

The ballots shall have printed on one line the words "For
Charter Adoption" and on the second line the words "Against
Charter Adoption" with a place opposite each for the "X"
mark of the voter.