866 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tions for members of the General Assembly of Maryland, ex-
cept as provided by this Act, and the said election shall be con-
ducted by open ballot or tickets printed for that purpose, which
the said judges of election shall prepare before such election,
and there shall be at least one thousand of said tickets or bal-
lots, as aforesaid, prepared for every such election, which shall
consist of as many complete tickets as shall be furnished said
election, each ticket bearing some particular emblem and some
designation by name when furnished.

56c. Immediately upon the closing of the polls and after the
.counting of the ballots by the judges as aforesaid, the said
judges shall certify the result of such election to the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Howard county, and the said judges shall
deposit with said clerk the books of registration and the returns
of election within three days after said election, and the said
clerk shall issue a proclamation of the result of such election
and insert a copy of said proclamation in some newspaper pub-
lished in said city within one week from the day of the deposit
of the said return with him; and the said Mayor and members
of the City Council of Ellicott City elected as aforesaid shall,
within ten days after the said publication of the copy of said
proclamation, take and subscribe the oath of office before the
clerk of the Circuit Court of Howard county.

56D. The judges of election and each clerk of election shall
receive one dollar for his services; the officer of registration
shall receive fifteen dollars for his entire service; the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Howard county shall receive one dollar
for issuing said proclamation; which expenses and all other ex-
penses attending any such election shall be paid by the corpora-
tion of Ellicott City.

56E. If at any election there shall be a tie between any per-
sons voted for, and in case of there being a vacancy or vacan-
cies in any of said municipal offices, a special election shall
be held within six weeks after such election, where there shall
be a tie vote, or when such vacancy or vacancies occur, and such
special election shall be at such time as may be designated by
the Mayor and conducted in such manner as is herein provided
for elections as heretofore mentioned in this article.

56F. There shall be an entire new registration of voters for
said city every ten years, accounting from the first Monday in
February, 1909, in the same manner as hereinbefore provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April G, 1908.