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Session Laws, 1910 Session
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934 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporate limits of said
town shall be the limits, courses and distances laid down upon
the plot of a certain plan of lots called "Woodmont" surveyed
by D. J. Howell in September, 1894, and duly recorded as plat
No. 4, in Plat Book No. 1, one of the Plat Books of Mont-
gomery County, Maryland; the same tract being a part of the
tract of land called "Pritchett's Purchase," and being the
same land conveyed from John E. Mitchell and wife to Charles
E. Wood by deed dated the 17th day of September, 1894, and
duly recorded in Liber J. A. No. 44, folio No. 379 et seq., one of
the Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all residents of said town
possessing the qualifications as prescribed 'for voters by the
laws of the State of Maryland, and all male resident owners
of real estate of said town and who are taxpayers thereon, and
all husbands of female resident owners of real estate of said
town, not less than twenty-one years of age, and who are bona
fide residents of said town and have actually resided in said
town for a period of not less than thirty days next preceding
the town meeting election at which they shall vote as herein
provided for, shall, on the first Monday in June, 1910, and
every year thereafter on the same day, at eight o'clock P. M.,
meet in the store room of the store known as Mr. Nash's store
in said town or after 1910, at such place as shall be designated
by the town council, and there from their body elect a person
to act as and be Mayor of said town for a term of one year
from said date, or until his successor is elected and qualified
and four others, who, together with the Mayor shall constitute
the council of Woodmont, and the members of said council to
serve without compensation except as hereinafter provided in
Section 4 for a period of one year, or until their successors are
elected and qualified. The qualified voters present at said
town meetings shall determine for themselves how the meeting
shall be conducted and elections had, who shall preside over
same, and the method and form to be followed in electing the
above-named officials. The chairman and secretary of said
meetings shall, over their signatures, make after the year 1910
to the Council due returns of the elections, declaring who was
selected and elected as Mayor and Councilman, and said coun-
cil shall promptly determine any and all questions that may
be raised before them by any person objecting to said returns,
and any person considering himself aggrieved by any decision
made by said Council may appeal therefrom to the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, which Court shall
hear and determine such appeal and decide same determining
who shall pay the costs of said appeal, which decision shall be
final. If any vacancy occur in the office of Mayor or Council-


 

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