228 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 107

amended by the Acts of 1902, Chapter 476, and as further
amended by the Acts of 1914, Chapter 796, be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

353. The male citizens of Middletown at the age of twenty-
one years and upwards, who shall have resided within the tax-
able limits of said town for twelve months next preceding the
election, shall elect by ballot on the first Monday of April
annually a Burgess and five Commissioners who shall have re-
sided within the said town for twelve months next preceding
the election; the said Burgess shall receive the sum of twenty-
five dollars ($25. 00) and each of the said five Commissioners
the sum of fifteen dollars ($15. 00) as compensation for their
respective services, to be paid annually out of the funds of said
Municipal Corporation. The Burgess of said town shall, at
least two weeks before the date of said election in each year,
issue a call for a Nominating Convention, to be composed of
the male residents of 'said town who may attend the same and
who shall be entitled to vote at the coming election, said
Nominating Convention to be held at some public place in said
town to be designated by the Burgess, and notice of which shall
be published in the Valley Register, or some other newspaper
published in said town at least four days prior to the time
of the holding of said Convention, giving the time and place
thereof, which said convention shall be held, not later than
one week prior to the date of the election. Said Convention
shall nominate not less than one nor more than two candi-
dates for Burgess, and not less than five nor more than ten
candidates for Commissioners, to be voted upon at said elec-
tion. It shall be the duty of the Register of said town to have
prepared for said election a ballot to be voted thereat, con-
taining the names of the persons so nominated. Every aspirant
for the office of Burgess and every aspirant for the Office of
Commissioner in said town who shall not have been nominated
at said Convention, may file with the Register, not later than
four days before the election, nominating papers for the office
or offices for which they may be aspirants, in writing, signed
by at least forty of the qualified voters of said town, and no
signature shall be counted if it shall appear upon the nom-
ination papers of more than one candidate for the office of
Burgess and more than five candidates for the office of Com-
missioner. The nomination papers of such person or persons
so filed as aforesaid shall also be placed on said ballot, and the
ballot shall be prepared and printed under the direction and
supervision of the Register of said town, and be supplied at