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wife a taxpayer of said town, assessed on the assessment
book with property to the amount of at least three hundred
dollars, and he must be at least twenty-five years of age :
and the term of office of Mayor shall be two years, or until
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his successor shall be elected and qualified; and the term of
office of Council men shall be three years, or until their
respective successors shall be elected and qualified; and the
present Mayor and all the present Councilmen of Pocomoke
City shall each continue in office and serve out in full the
respective term for which they were elected under the
previous charter of the town and until their successors and
successor of each of them shall be duly elected and qualified
under the provisions of this charter.
Section 205. Any male citizen of the United States who
has never been convicted of any infamous crime, either in
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this State or elsewhere, but who has resided within the
State for one year and within the corporate limits of Poco-
moke City for six months next preceding the election, and
who is above the age of twenty-one years, shall be entitled
to vote at all municipal elections hereafter held in said town
of Pocomoke City, provided he shall possess at least one of
the following qualifications, namely: (1) if he be the bona
fide and actual owner of real or personal property of the
value of five hundred dollars or upwards, for which he has
been duly and lawfully assessed on the assessment books of
said town, and upon which no municipal taxes are due and
in arrears on the day of the election, or (2) if prior to the
first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight, he was entitled to vote in the State of Maryland or
elsewhere in the United States at a State election, or (3) if
he is a male, lawful descendent of a person who, prior to the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, was
entitled to vote in the State of Maryland or elsewhere in the
United States at a State election; and the male citizens of
said town who are qualified to vote as heretofore described
and set forth, shall, on the first Tuesday in April, in the
year nineteen hundred and six, elect by ballot, one person to
be Councilman to succeed the Councilman whose term is
about to expire, and on the same day in each and every
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I Entitled to
vote at all
municipal
elections.
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year thereafter elect by ballot one person to be Councilman,
to succeed the Councilman whose term of office shall then be
about to expire, and likewise on said Tuesday in April, in
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Councilmen
elected.
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