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of the votes shall not be cast in favor of said increase in the
tax rate at this election, then the question shall a second time
be submitted to the qualified voters of the town of Frostburg at
the next succeeding general municipal election in the town of
Frostburg in the same manner and method as hereinbefore
provided. And if at said second election a majority of the
votes shall be cast in favor of said increase in the tax rate,
then the said Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg shall be
authorized to increase the same as hereinbefore provided, and
if at said second election there shall not be a majority of votes
cast in favor of said increase in the tax rate, then this Act shall
be null and void.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 234.

AN ACT to repeal Section 134 and Section 143, Chapter 88
of the Acts of 1902, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Allegany County," sub-title "Frostburg," providing for the

election of Mayor and the salary of the Mayor and Council-
men and other officers of the Town of Frostburg; and to re-
enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be H enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 134 and 143 of the Acts of 1902, of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title
"Frostburg," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments so as to read as follows:

Section 134. The male citizens of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, who have resided in the town of Frostburg
one year next preceding the election, shall elect on the first
Tuesday of April, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and every
two years thereafter, one person who shall be a qualified voter
of said town, as Mayor of Frostburg; and said person so
elected shall at the time of his election, and during his full
term of office own real estate in said town of the assessed value
of at least five hundred dollars.

Section 143. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg may
allow their clerk, treasurer, bailiff, policemen and other officers
such reasonable compensation for their services as they may
deem proper, and shall have the power to dismiss any of them
at pleasure. The Mayor shall receive a salary of three hundred