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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hold the first election under this act, and that,
immediately after the passage of this act, they
shall give at least five days' notice of the time
at which said election shall be held ; at which
election all persons qualified, as prescribed in the
third and fourth sections of this act, shall be en-
titled to vote for one person for mayor, and six
persons for councilmen of said town ; and the said
judges of election, before opening the polls, shall

Take oath.

take an oath before some justice of the peace in
said town, to permit every qualified person to
vote, and none other, and a majority of said three
judges shall have power to do all things, under
this section, in case one of them dies or refuses
to act ; and the mayor and councilmen, then
elected, shall immediately qualify and serve un-
til the first Monday in May, eighteen hundred
and eighty-nine, or until their successors qualify ;
all future mayors and councilmen, elected ac-
cording to the preceding sections, shall qualify
by the first Monday in May, and take possession
of their offices the first Monday in May, each
year.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the mayor and

Power of elec-
tion judges.

councilmen of the town of Lonaconing, for each
succeeding election, shall appoint three judges
of election who shall have power to appoint
clerks and conduct the elections in all respects as
the elections f or members of the general assembly
are required to be conducted, opening the polls
at nine o'clock in the morning, and closing them
at six o'clock in the evening, and said judges
and clerks shall receive the same compensation
as judges and clerks of elections in Allegany
county, to be paid for by said town.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That in case of death,

Vacancies—
how filled.

refusal to act, resignation or disqualification of
the mayor or any of the councilmen, the coun-
cilmen, or the remaining councilmen, shall di-
rect an election to be held to fill such vacancies ;
and the mayor and councilmen, or remaining
councilmen, shall give at least ten days' notice
of all elections in one or more newspapers pub-
lished in said town or county.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the mayor

Power of
mayor.

shall ex-officio have all the power of a justice
of the peace in cases when the town is a party,