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CHAP. 689.
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of the district where the defendant resides, who shall try the
same.
Approved April 11, 1902.
CHAPTER 569.
AN ACT to repeal Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter 528 of
the General Assembly of Maryland, Session 1898, title
"Worcester County," sub-title "Ocean City," and tore-enact
the same with amendments.
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Repeal.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections two and three of chapter 528 of the
Acts of 1898, title "Worcester County," sub-title "Ocean
City," be and they are hereby repealed.
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Body
corporate.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of Ocean
City, in Worcester county. Maryland, are constituted a body
corporate, by the name of Mayor and City Council of Ocean
City, and by that name may sue and be sued, have and hold a
common seal, and have perpetual succession.
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Mayor and
City Council
men to
be elected.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the legal voters of Ocean City
" who have resided within the corporate limits six months pre-
ceding an election, and all male persons who own any interest in
real estate in said city of the age of twenty-one years and
upward, shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday in August,
in 1902, and in every second year thereafter, one person to be
Mayor of said city, and tive persons to be City Council of said
city, all of whom must be real estate owners in said city or
interested therein, and at least three of said Council must be
legal residents of said city, to serve two years from the second
Monday in September next after their election and until their
successors are elected and qualified. If any person so elected
as Mayor or City Councilman shall refuse to serve as such, or
if his place shall become vacant by death, resignation, disquali-
fication or otherwise, the remaining Councilmen shall till the
vacancy as early as possible from among the qualified voters
of said town, and the person appointed to till the vacancy shall
hold his office until the next election ; and in case of a tie
between any persons voted for at any election under this sec-
tion of this Act, the clerk of election shall immediately certify
to the Councilmen elected the fact of there being a tie, and
the said Councilmen shall, at their first meeting as a board,
designate one of the said persons who have received a tie vote
to be Mayor or Councilmen, as the case may be, and the paid
. Mayor or Councilmen, as the case may be, shall hold his office
as fully as if he had received the highest number of votes;
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