770 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 385

title "Prince George's County", sub-title "Bowie", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read
as follows:

89. All adult persons who have resided within the said
town for six months next preceding the day of election, or who
shall be assessed with three hundred dollars of real or personal
property within said town, and who are qualified to vote for
delegates to the General Assembly of Maryland, shall elect on
the first Monday in June, 1917, and annually thereafter on the
first Monday in June, three persons to act as Commissioners
of said Town, all of whom shall be residents of said town and
shall have been qualified to vote in a town election in said town
for at least one year next preceding their election.

90. The Commissioners of said Town shall annually on or
before the first Monday in May appoint three persons from
among the voters thereof to act as judges of election. And
the said judges of election shall give at least ten days notice,
by posting not less than five written or printed notices in con-
spicuous places in said town and by a notice published in two
issues of a newspaper published in the town, if there be a news-
paper so published, of the time and place at which said elec-
tion shall be held; and the said judges of election before open-
ing the polls, shall take the 'Constitutional oath of office before
any person authorized by law to administer oaths; and the
said judges shall keep the polls open from three o'clock P. M.,
until seven o'clock P. M., and shall record the names of the
voters, and after the closing of the polls, shall count the bal-
lots and announce the result, and make and sign a certificate
thereof to be filed among the records of said corporation. And
in case of any tie vote being cast, so that no three men shall
receive the highest number of votes cast, the said judges of elec-
tion shall call another election in not more than fifteen days,
and shall give notice as above provided, at which election there
shall be elected such number of commissioners, as with those
receiving a majority at the regular election, will fill the board
of three commissioners.

91. If any vacancy shall occur by the death, resignation,
removal, or refusal to act of any commissioner of said town,
the remaining commissioner shall elect a proper person to fill
said vacancy; and all cases of contested election of said com-
missioners shall be decided by the judges of the Circuit Court
of Prince George's County in the manner provided by the Gen-
eral Election Laws; and pending any contest, actually filed,
and until the Court shall decide who is legally elected, the com-
missioner or commissioners whose election is contested, if
he is holding the office by virtue of a previous election, shall