384 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 206
ty", sub-title "County Commissioners", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:
207. At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in the month of November in the year
nineteen hundred and forty-two (1942) and every four
years thereafter, there shall be elected three County Commis-
sioners for Anne Arundel County; said Commissioners shall
meet at their office in the Court House at Annapolis, for the
transaction of the duties of their office at least one day in
each week, and on such other days as they may deem necessary.
A person to be eligible to the office of County Commissioners
in Anne Arundel County shall have actually resided in the
county for at least ten years, and shall be a taxpayer upon
real estate in said county assessed for at least two thousand
dollars. The Chairman, who shall give his full time to the
duties of his office, shall receive a salary of Four Thousand
($4, 000. 00) Dollars per year and the other two Commissioners
shall each receive a salary of Twelve Hundred ($1, 200. 00)
Dollars per year, without mileage or other extra compensa-
tion of any kind.
At the primary elections held in Anne Arundel County at
which candidates are to be selected for the positions of County
Commissioners, the candidate of each party for Chairman shall
be nominated by the voters of said parties in the entire
County, but the voters of the respective parties of the Third,
Fourth and Fifth Election Districts shall nominate a candi-
date for County Commissioner and the voters of said respective
parties of the First, Second, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Elec-
tion Districts shall nominate a candidate for County Com-
missioner. The Supervisors of Elections of Anne Arundel
County shall place the names of all persons who file papers
for the position of Chairman of the County Commissioners
upon the ballots to be used by the respective parties through-
out the entire County and shall place the names of persons
who file papers for the position of County Commissioner from
the Third, Fourth and Fifth Election Districts only upon the
ballots to be used by the respective parties in said districts
and shall place the names of persons who file papers for the
position of County Commissioners from the First, Second.
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Election Districts only upon the
ballots to be used by the respective parties in said districts.
The candidates who receive the greatest number of votes
in each instance at said primary election shall be certified by
the Supervisors of Elections as the nominees of the political
parlies to which they belong, and the names of said nominees
shall be placed on the official ballot to be used in the general
election.
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