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STATE OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 88.

the corporate limits of said town, and the second to consist of
all that portion of election district twenty-six of said county
lying within said corporate limits; and the Mayor and Coun-
cilmen shall establish a suitable voting place in each of said
wards for the purpose of holding elections therein as herein-
after provided.
Section 134. The male citizens of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, who have resided in the town of Frostburg

Mayor to be
elected.

one year next preceding the election, shall elect on the first
Tuesday of April in each year, one person, who shall be a
qualified voter of said town, as Mayor of Frostburg ; and said
person so elected shall, at the time of his election, and during
his full term of office, own real estate in said town of the
assessed value of at least five hundred dollars.
Section 135. There shall be eix councilmen, three of whom
shall be elected on the first Tuesday of April in each year by

Counclimen
to be elected

the persons qualified to vote for Mayor, as prescribed by the
preceding section, and each councilman so elected shall hold
office for two years. Said councilmen shall be citizens of the
United States, residents of the said town for one year next
preceding their election, and qualified to vote at such election
in the ward in which they reside ; they shall at the time of
their election and during their full term of office each own
real estate or personal property in said town of the assessed
value of at least one hundred dollars ; provided, that nothing
herein contained shall affect the councilmen whose term of
office have not yet expired.
Section 136. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg, for

Judges of
election to be
appointed.

each municipal election, shall appoint three judges of election
for each of said wards, who shall have power to appoint clerks
and conduct the elections in all respects as elections have here-
tofore been conducted in said town under the provisions of
chapter 77 of the Acts of 1870, opening the polls at nine
o'clock in the morning and closing them at seven o'clock in
the evening ; and the said judges and clerks of election shall
receive the same compensation as the judges and clerks of
election in Allegany county, to be paid by the town ; and the
officers of registration appointed under section 163 A of this
article shall at their annual sitting make such changes, altera-
tions and transfers as may be necessary for making and main-
taining correct lists of the qualified voters in each of said
wards.

Compensa-
tion allowed.

Section 143. The Mayor and Councilmen may allow their
clerk, treasurer, bailiff, policemen and other officers such
reasonable compensation for their services as they may deem
proper, and shall have the power to dismiss any of them at