868 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 480

required to perform all the duties authorized or required
to be done by the Mayor and Council under this subtitle,
and they shall continue in office until November 15, 1924,
and until their successors are elected and qualified.

184. The said Council of North Beach shall at least
ten days prior to the first Tuesday following the first Mon-
day in November, 1934, and biennially thereafter give
notice of the time and place of holding an election for
Mayor, Treasurer, and Councilmen by posting printed or
typewritten notices in five conspicuous places in the said
town, and shall also publish such notice in some newspaper
published in Calvert County, Maryland, and in one pub-
lished in Washington, D. C.. one insertion, at least three
weeks prior to said election; said judges of election, here-
inbefore provided for, shall before acting as such take an
oath before the Mayor or some justice of the peace of Cal-
vert County, Maryland, to allow all persons to vote who
are qualified to vote under this act, and to allow none to
vote unless so qualified.

185. The polls shall be kept open from 7 o'clock A. M.
until 7 o'clock P. M. of said election day. The judges shall,
after the closing of the polls, carefully count the ballots
cast, and within two days after the said election make a
true and correct return of the same under their hands to
the Council, and shall issue certificates of election to the
person appearing from said returns to have received the
highest number of votes for Mayor, and the person receiv-
ing the highest number of votes for Treasurer, and the six
persons receiving the highest number of votes for Council-
men, provided that if the Council shall have divided the
town into election districts and shall have apportioned the
membership of the Council among such districts then, in
that event, the person or persons receiving the highest
number of votes in each district shall be entitled to receive
certificates of election with respect to that district. The
persons who shall receive such certificates of election shall
be Mayor, Treasurer and Councilmen, respectively, for the
said town for the two ensuing years or until their
successors are duly elected and qualified. Said certificates
of election shall be recorded among the records of the said
town Council, and a copy thereof shall be forthwith trans-
mitted by the town clerk to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Calvert County, and by him be filed and recorded.

186. In case a vote be challenged, the judges of elec-
tion shall forthwith hear and pass upon the qualifications