LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

which they are drawn, if seasonably presented by the legal
holders thereof for payment ; but corporation orders duly
executed shall be receivable for corporation taxes, payable by
the legal holder thereof.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners of

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Arundel on the Bay shall at least ten days prior to the said last
Saturday in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and
annually thereafter, give notice of the time and place of hold-
ing an election for Commissioners of said town, by posting
printed notices in three of the most public places in said town,
and in some newspaper, if there shall be any in said town, and if
not, then in some newspaper published in Anne Arundel
county, Maryland, and also in one published in Washington
D. C., for three consecutive weeks, and at some meeting of
the said Commissioners prior to the said last Saturday in July,
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and each year thereafter, they
shall appoint three citizens of the said town of Arundel on the
Bay to act as judges of said election, who before acting as such
shall take the general oath prescribed by section six of Article
one of the Constitution of Maryland, and shall qualify in the
same manner prescribed for judges of State and county elec-
tions in the State ; and the said judges shall have power to
appoint two competent persons to act as clerks to said election
who shall qualify as provided by existing law for clerks of elec-
tion, and shall perform their duties in the same manner as is
therein prescribed. The polls shall be open at three o'clock
P. M. and close at eight 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 ordi-
nances of said Board of Commissioners ; and the same 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 such town shall not be required to
be conducted in conformity to the requirements of chapter
202, Article 33 of the Acts of 1896, or any amendments
thereto.

Notice to be
given.

SEC. 5. 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 elec-

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Fail to
qualify.