ALLEGANY COUNTY. 511

the corporate limits of Lonaconing six months next preceding
the election, and who shall have been registered as hereinafter
prescribed, shall on the first Thursday in May in each and
every year, -at such place as the Mayor and Councilmen may
designate within the corporate limits, elect one qualified voter
of said town to be Mayor of Lonaconing, who shall hold office
for one year and until his successor shall have qualified; and
at the same time shall elect three qualified voters of said town
to be Councilmen for said town, to serve two years or until
their respective successor shall have qualified; and both the
Mayor and Councilmen shall qualify on or before the fourth
Tuesday in May, and shall enter upon their respective duties
on the first Tuesday in June of each year.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That they may allow their bailiff
and police such reasonable compensation for their services as
they may think proper; and the clerk, treasurer and mayor
shall each receive annually a salary of fifty ($50.00) dollars,
and each councilman the sum of two ($2.00) dollars for each
meeting of council at which his attendance is of record upon
the minutes; provided, such compensation shall not be paid for
more than twenty such meetings in each year.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That at the election on the first
Tuesday in May, 1910, each voter shall have printed or written
upon his ballot, "for the amendment" or "against the amend-
ment ;" if a majority of the qualified voters of said town at said
election shall vote in favor of the amendment, then the provi-
sions of this Act shall take effect, but if a majority of said
voters shall vote against the amendment then this Act shall be
held as utterly null and void.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 685.

AN ACT to repeal Section 2 of Article 2 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, entitled "Allegany County," sub-title "Alms-
house," as enacted by Chapter 587 of the Acts of 1906, and to
repeal Sections 1, 3, 4 and 5 of said Article 2 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, entitled "Allegany County," sub-title
"Almshouse," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, entitled "Allegany County," sub-title "Almshouse." as