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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 468

whether elected or appointed, duly took the prescribed oath
of office according to law; also all franchises and contracts
in writing granted or entered into by the " Mayor and Coun-
cil " to or with other parties, and all other papers and docu-
ments concerning the town and its affairs which the Council
may require to be recorded therein. Extracts from any
municipal record books, copies or any papers or documents
recorded therein, and copies of any ordinances set out in the
ordinance books shall, when pertinent and relevant, be admis-
sible in evidence in any of the courts of the State or before
any justice of the peace thereof, when verified by a certificate
signed by the town clerk and authenticated by the corporate
seal; provided, that the clerk of the Circuit Court for Tal-

Proviso.

bot county, when the extracts or copies are to be used out-
side of said county, shall certify by his hand and the seal
of said court that the person who verifies said contract or
copy is the town clerk of Easton; and provided, that no
extract shall be made by the town clerk unless he embodies
in the same all that the municipal records contain about the
matter in question; and provided further, that the said town
clerk, if called on for a copy of any ordinance shall, with the
copy of the ordinance asked, embrace any amendments that
may have been made thereto, or if the same has been repealed,
he shall state the fact in his certificate in the Circuit Court
for Talbot county and before any justice of the peace of said
county; the record books themselves may be offered in evi-
dence to prove any relevant or pertinent matter contained in
the same. The town clerk shall be entitled to receive at the

Compensation.

rate of ten cents for every hundred words embraced in any
extract or copy made by him from the records, to be paid for
by the party who shall ask the same; provided, that the
minimum fee therefor shall be fifty cents; but no compensa-
tion shall be paid for extracts or copies for the use or benefit
of the Mayor or Council; and at hours appointed by the
Council the record books shall be open for the inspection of
any resident of Easton unless the same be actually in use by
the Mayor or Council or town clerk.

Entitled to
vote.

45. All elections shall be by ballot, and every male citizen
of the age of twenty-one years or upwards who is a citizen
of the United States and who has been a bona fide, resident
of the town for one year preceding the election and whose
name shall appear upon the list of registered voters of the