HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 797

and the Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annap-
olis shall appoint the supervisors from the persons so desig-
nated for said city, unless, in the judgment of the Mayor, Coun-
selor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, all of said per-
sons shall be unfit or incompetent for said position, in which
case said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen shall file a written
statement to that effect with the City Clerk, setting forth
such fact and the grounds therefor, and thereupon said Mayor,
Counselor and Aldermen shall call upon the said committee
for the city for another list of six names and from said list
and the original list said Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen
shall make the appointment.

6. Before entering upon the duties of their office the said
Supervisors of Election of the City of Annapolis shall take and
subscribe the oath prescribed in the Sixth Section of the First
Article of the Constitution of Maryland, and also an oath to
perform faithfully and honestly the duties imposed upon
them by law. These oaths shall be taken before and duly re-
corded by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County, who shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for
each oath, to be paid by the Supervisors. Within twenty days
after their appointment the Supervisors of Election for the
City of Annapolis, shall organize as a Board by electing one
of their members as President and they shall hold office for
four years and until their successors are appointed and
qualified, unless sooner removed for good cause shown by the
Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, who
shall have power to remove them at any time upon written
charges after notice and hearing.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be and they
are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. 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 upon a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved April 26. 1937.

CHAPTER 402.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 46 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Inherit-