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shall cause to be made and maintain a registration of the
legal voters of said town annually, which registration shall
be essential to the right of voting at any election under this
charter, but shall not be conclusive evidence of the right to
vote, and said Mayor and Council shall annually, on or
before the third Monday in April, appoint two persons as
officers of registration, 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 o'clock P. M. and from seven o'clock P. M. to
nine o'clock P. M.; and the officers of registration shall
give at least one week's notice by publication in one or more
newspapers or by hand bills of the time and place of their
sitting, which must not be less than obe week before the
election, at which all the qualified voters as hereinafter pre-
scribed may register; and the said officers of registration
before entering upon their duties shall take an oath before
some justice of the peace of Allegany county to permit every
qualified voter and none other, to register, and either of said
registration officers shall have power to do all things under
this paragraph, in case one of them died or refused to act ;
and upon the completion of the registration of voters, the
said officers of registration shall deliver to the judges of
election a list of the qualified voters so registered, and shall
receive such compensation as the Mayor and Council of said
town shall determine.
Mayor.
Section 184 A4. No person shall be eligible to the office of
Mayor unless he has attained the age of twentv-five years
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and shall have resided in the town limits of Midland as
prescribed in the plat and survey thereof on record in the
clerk's office in Allegany county for three years next pre-
ceding his election, and shall also be assessed on the tax
books of the town of Midland with an amount not less than
two hundred in real property. The Mayor elected at any
regular election shall hold office for one year from the first
Monday in June next after his election and until his successor
is elected and qualified. Should a vacancy occur in the
office of Mayor more than six months before the expiration
of his time by reason of removal from the town, death, res-
ignation or removal from office or otherwise, the Council
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Mayor.
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