ART. 21.] TALBOT COUNTY. 1015

53. The voting place shall be in the engine house until other-
wise ordered by the Mayor and Council and the polls shall be
kept open from twelve o'clock M. to eight o'clock P. M.

55. The person presenting himself to vote shall give his
name to the judges, who shall, if his name be found upon the
registry, admit him to the polling place and give to him an
official envelope, on the back of which shall be written the
initials or name of some one of the three judges, the voter shall
then go into one of the booths and enclose within the envelope
furnished him an official ballot; not more than one voter shall
be permitted to occupy any one booth or compartment at one
time, and no voter shall remain in or occupy a booth longer
than may be necessary to prepare his ballot, and in no event
longer than three minutes, in case all such booths or compart-
ments are in use and other voters are waiting to occupy the
same; he shall then return said envelope to one of the judges
designated to receive the ballots, and the judge shall deposit the
same in the ballot box, if no part of said ballot be exposed
so as to show any of the marks thereon.

62. The Mayor shall be a person of known integrity, experi-
ence and sound judgment and qualified voter of the town of
Easton, not less than twenty-five years of age, and he must
have been a qualified voter in one of the. election precincts
of Talbot county centering in the town of Easton for two years
next preceding the election, and for one year next preceding the
election, be assessed upon the assessment books of said town
with property to the amount of not less than five hundred dol-
lars, and shall hold his office for two years and until the
qualification of his successor.

65. The members elect of the Council shall meet on the third
Monday in May succeeding their election and shall each take
before the Mayor the oath or affirmation herein prescribed for
the Mayor, and they shall meet on the third Monday in each
and every month thereafter, and the Council may hold such
special meetings as they shall deem necessary and proper; and
the Mayor or president of the Council may call such meetings
as he may deem necessary and proper.

66. The president of the Council shall, if present, preside at
all meetings of the Council and he shall act as Mayor during
the absence from town or the temporary incapacity of the
Mayor; and in case of the Mayor's death, resignation, removal
from town, permanent incapacity or removal from office, he
shall become Mayor. In the absence of the president of the
Council from any meeting of the Council, the members present
shall elect one of their number to act as president.