SOMERSET COUNTY. 1113

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 198 of Article 20 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Somerset County," subtitle "Princess Anne," as
amended by Chapter 543 of the Acts of 1894 and by Chapter
138 of the Acts of 1904, be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

198. Every male citizen of the United States above twenty-
one years of age who has been a resident of this State for two
years and of the town of Princess Anne for one year next pre-
ceding the election shall be entitled to vote at the elections
hereafter to be held in said town; provided he be first, a person
who on the 1st day of January, 1869, or prior thereto, was
entitled to vote under the laws of this State, or of any other
State of the United States wherein he then resided; second,
a male descendant of such last-named person; or third, a
foreign-born citizen of the United States, naturalized between
the 1st day of January in the year 1869 and the date of the
passage of this act; or fourth, a male descendant of such last-
named person, and the affidavit of any applicant duly made to
the officers of election of said town that he, the applicant, is a
person who was entitled to vote on or before the 1st day of
January, 1869, as aforesaid, or that he has become a natural-
ized citizen between the said date and the date of the passage
of this Act, as aforesaid, or that, upon information or belief,
he is a descendant of either of such persons, shall be prima
facia evidence of any of said facts so sworn to, any wilfully
false statement upon the part of any applicant in relation to
any of the matters aforesaid, shall be perjury and shall be
punishable as perjury is punishable by the laws of this State;
and every person, male, above twenty-one years of age, not
otherwise having any of the above prescribed qualifications
shall be entitled to become a qualified voter if he at the time of
the election is a bona fide owner of real or personal property
in an amount of not less than $300, is assessed on the tax books
of the said town, has been such owner and so assessed for two
years next preceding the election, shall have paid and shall pro-
duce receipts for the taxes on said property for said two years.
No person not qualified under some one of the above clauses
shall be entitled to vote; and the legal voters qualified as above
prescribed shall elect by ballot on the 1st Monday in June,
1910, at such place within said town as shall be designated by
the aforesaid commissioners of said town, by a notice to be put
in at least five of the most public places in said town at least
one week before the date of the election, three judicious and
discreet persons, each a qualified male voter of the said town,
as commissioners of said town, and the .persons thus elected as
commissioners shall each of them within one month after his