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services, out of the proceeds of the taxes to be levied annually
for the general expenses of the town.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and eigh-
teen.

Approved April 18th, 1918.

CHAPTER 259.

AN ACT to provide for the election of vestries in the Chevy
Chase, Norwood and Christ Church Parishes of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, in Montgomery county, Maryland, pre-
scribing the qualifications of electors of vestrymen £or said
parishes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That in the Chevy Chase, Norwood and Christ Church
Parishes of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Montgomery
county, Maryland, the vestries shall be chosen in the following
manner, that is to say, every person above twenty-one years
of age who shall have been entered on the parish books one
month at least precding the day of election of vestrymen as a
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and who shall also
contribute to the charges of the said parish in which he offers
to vote such sum as a majority of the vestry in each parish shall
annually, within 10 day's after their election, in writing, make
known and declare, not exceeding two dollars, shall have a right
of suffrage in the election of vestrymen for such parish; and
all persons so qualified shall, on the next ensuing Easter Mon-
day, assemble in said respective parishes, at their parish church,
or if there shall be two or more Protestant Episcopal Churches
in either parish, at the church first built therein, or if there be
in either parish no such church, then at such other place as the
rector of the parish, or if there be no rector, as any three or
more vestrymen, may have publicly notified to the parishioners;
and the said persons, so qualified to vote, when assembled, or
such of them as may assemble in each parish, shall proceed,
by a majority of votes, to elect, by ballot, eight vestrymen, from
among the persons qualified to vote, who, with the rector of the
parish for the time being, shall be deemed and considered the
vestry of the said parish for the ensuing year, and the rector
of the parish shall always be one of the vestry.

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