FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

elections in this State, are required to qualify before a justice
of the peace; and the said judges shall have power to appoint
two competent persons to act as clerks to said election, who
shall qualify as provided for clerks of election by article
thirty-three of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land, and shall perform their duties in the same manner as is
therein prescribed. The polls shall be opened at nine o'clock
A. M., and close at six o'clock P. M., on such election days; and
the said judges shall within three days after each election,
notify the persons who shall have received the greatest
number of legal votes, of their election, and shall make return
of such election and shall deposit their polls as directed by the
ordinances of said board of commissioners; and the seven
persons who shall respectively receive the highest number of
votes shall be the commissioners for the said town for the
ensuing year, or until their successors are duly elected and
qualified. And the elections held in said town shall not be
required to be conducted in conformity to the requirements of
chapter 538 of the acts of 1890, or any amendments thereto.

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SEC. 5. And Be it enacted, That all male inhabitants of
said town, citizens of the United States and of the State of
Maryland, twenty-one years of age or over, who shall have
resided in said town for six months next preceding any
election at which they shall offer to vote, shall be entitled to
vote for commissioners of said town; and any male citizen of
the State of Maryland, who owns real estate in said town of
the value of five hundred dollars, shall be eligible to the posi-
tion of Commissioner of Chesapeake Beach.

Qualifications

of voters.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That if it shall happen that any
of the persons voted for and duly elected, shall from any cause
fail to qualify, then, and in that case, the person receiving the
next highest number of votes shall be deemed to have been
elected, and shall be so informed by the judges of election,
and shall thereupon be entitled to qualify as one of said com-
missioners.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That in case of the death, resig-

Failure to
qualify.

nation, refusal to act or disqualification of any commissioner,
the remaining commissioners, not less than a quorum, shall
choose some person duly qualified and eligible, as commis-
sioner for the unexpired term.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said James W.
Owens, John T. Hutchins, George S. Chase, A. H. Mattox,

Vacancies.