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SEC. 3. That all male persons of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, who, on the day of election and continu-
ously for a period of thirty days prior thereto, shall be the
owner of real estate in said town to the extent of at least
twenty-five hundred feet of ground shall elect by ballot on the
first Saturday in June, in the year 1918, and annually there-
after, a Mayor and six Councilmen of said town, who shall
together constitute the Council of North Beach. The evi-
dence of ownership of the amount of real estate required by
this act shall be the original deed for the same, showing that
it has. been duly recorded, or a certificate from the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Calvert County to that effect, together
with the receipt for taxes up to and including the current
year, which evidence of ownership shall be submitted on the
day of election to the election officials and shall be a condition
precedent to the right of any person to vote at such elections.

Section 39a. And be it further enacted, That the election
or elections hereinbefore provided for shall be subject to the
provisions of the Corrupt Practices Act of Maryland, as con-
tained in the Code of Public General Laws, in so far as the
same have any applicability to this Act.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 277.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the State Roads Commission
of Maryland to construct and thereafter maintain as a part
of the State Roads System, an improved concrete highway, be-
ginning at the eastern boundary of the town of Union Bridge,
Carroll County, at Lightner and Locust Avenues; thence along
the Quaker Hill Road to Linwood; thence connecting with the
Linwood and Uniontown Road over the present main road to
Uniontown; thence from Uniontown over the present County
Road to Frizzellburg.

WHEREAS, The towns of Union Bridge, Linwood and Union-
town are situated in a rich and thriving agricultural section,
but are greatly handicapped in making such further develop-
ment of which they are deserving and capable through the lack
of improved roads; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State Roads Commission of Maryland be and is