JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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election of the officers as provided in this Act, the Mayor and
Council shall cause a survey and plat of the lands, lots, streets
and alleys embraced in the boundaries named in this Act to be
made and have the same recorded in the office of the clerk for
the Circuit Court for Allegany county as the corporate limits
of the town of Midland ; and when so recorded, said map or
a copy properly certified by said clerk, under the seal of his
office, shall be evidence of the boundaries of said town.
ELECTION.

CHAP. 356.

The inhabitants of the town of Midland, who have resided
there for six months next preceding any municipal election,
having the qualifications prescribed for voters by the laws of
this State, and who have been registered as hereinafter pre-
scribed, shall, on the fourth Monday in April, nineteen hundred
and two, and on the same day in every year thereafter, at such
place as shall be designated by the judges of election, between
the hours of one o'clock, P. M., and seven o'clock, P. M. elect
by ballot one person to be Mayor of said town, and one person
each to be bailiff and secretary of the Board of Health, and
on the fourth Monday in April the said voters shall elect in
the same manner two persons to be members of the Council
for two years, and two persons to be members of the Council
for one year, making four members in all, and annually there-
after the said voters shall elect two persons to be members of
the Council for two years, and all persons elected by the people
shall hold their office until their successors have been elected
and qualified.
REGISTRATION.

Election.

The Mayor and Council of Midland shall cause to be made
and maintained a registration of the legal voters of said town,
which registration shall be made and corrected substantially in
the manner provided in the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Election," sub-title "Registration," by chapter 22 of
the Acts of 1882, and such registration shall be essential to
the right of voting at any election under this charter, but shall
not be conclusive evidence of such right to vote; and said
Mayor and Council shall annually, on or before the fourth
Monday in March, appoint two persons as officers of registra-
tion, who shall sit in public for two days, from nine o'clock,
A. M., to twelve noon, and from one o'clock, P. M., to five P.
M., and from seven o'clock, P. M., to nine P. M., and the said
officers of registration shall give at least one week's notice, by
publication in one or more newspapers or by handbills, of the
time and place of their sitting, which must be not less than
one week before the election, at which all qualified voters, as
hereinbefore prescribed, may register ; and the said officers of
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Registration.