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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 549

the year nineteen hundred and six, and on the same day in
every second year thereafter, elect by ballot one person to
be Mayor, to succeed the Mayor then in office.
Section 206. The Mayor shall publish in some newspaper

Notice of
election to be
published.

of general circulation in said town at least ten days prior to
the date of each election for town officers notice thereof,
stating the day and hour of opening and closing the polls,
the place of polling and the officers to be voted for, and he
shall also appoint three citizens, qualified voters of said
town, to act as judges of said election; and said judges of
election before entering upon the discharge of their duties
shall take and subscribe before the Mayor the same oath
required by Article 1, Section 6 of the Constitution of Mary-
land; one of the judges shall act as clerk; the polls shall be
opened at nine o'clock A. M. and closed at three o'clock P.
M., and the names of all the persons voting shall be regis-
tered by said clerk, and the said judges shall make immediate

Returns to be
made.

return under their hands of the number of votes cast and for
whom cast, with a certificate of their appointment, and both
signed by the Mayor and town clerk, and with the corporate
seal of the town affixed to the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Worcester county, who shall record the same at once and
issue certificates of election to those persons receiving the
largest number of votes for the office for which they were
respectively voted. And said certificate of election from
the clerk of the court shall be recorded by the town clerk
among the proceedings of the Council; each judge of election
shall receive one dollar for his services as such.
Section 207. The Mayor elect and also each Councilman

Oath of office
to be taken.

elect shall without delay appear before said clerk of the
Circuit Court and make the oath or affirmation and declara-
tion prescribed by the constitution, and having secured from
said clerk a certificate of his said declaration and oath, shall
return the same to the town clerk to be recorded among the
proceedings of the Mayor and Council. And if any per-
son so elected Mayor or Councilman shall fail to qualify
as above required on or before the first Monday in May
next succeeding his election, the office to which he was
elected shall be declared vacant and the vacancy shall be
filled in the manner hereinafter provided for the filling of a
vacancy in said office. If any vacancy shall happen in the
office of Councilman by reason of resignation, death, remov-