884 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 449

opposite each. Said election shall be conducted, as nearly as
practicable, as elections for county officers in Prince George's
County. Said committee shall appoint three (3) judges and
two (2) clerks who shall conduct said election, and any of
said committee are hereby authorized to act as judges or clerks.
The said judges and clerks, before undertaking to perform the
duties of their office, shall subscribe to the same oath as is
now administered for judges and clerks in elections for county
officers for Prince George's County.

For the purpose of said election, all persons over the age of
twenty-one (21) years actually residing in the territory pro-
posed to be annexed to the town of Cottage City by this Act
at the date of its enactment, shall be eligible to vote at said
election. The said judges, or any of them, before permitting
any person to vote at said election, shall administer to such
person an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing
but the truth in reference to any question which might be asked
them in reference to their qualifications as a voter in said elec-
tion, and shall examine each of said persons, and if they do
not bring themselves within the terms of this section, shall
refuse them the right to vote.

Upon the closing of said polls, the said judges and clerks
shall canvass the said vote, publicly announce the result of
said canvass, certify the result to the Cottage City Commis-
sion, and deliver the ballot boxes, with the ballots sealed there-
in, to the Cottage City Commission, who shall faithfully keep
the sealed boxes for a period of thirty (80) days after said
election.

In the event that the majority of said votes are in favor of
the annexation of the territory herein described to the town of
Cottage City, said territory, upon this Act going into effect,
shall be annexed to and become a part of said town; in the
event that a majority of said votes are against such annexa-
tion, this Act shall be null and void and of no effect.

SEC. 8. And &e it further enacted, That this Act is declared
to be an emergency Act, and necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public health and safety, and being passed
upon by a three-fifths vote 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 449.

AN ACT to add a new Section to Article 17 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Prince