PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1119

and at any time after the first day of January next succeeding
the date of the levy, and not before, payment may be enforced
by sale as provided by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 660.

AN ACT to repeal Sections two and six of Chapter fifty-six of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of Session of
1882, codified as Sections 313 and 317 of Article 11 of the
Code of Public Local Laws, title "Frederick County," sub-
title "Mechanicstown" (now Thurmont), and to substitute
in lieu thereof the following:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 2 and 6 of Chapter 56 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, of the Session of 1882, codified
as Sections 313 and 317 of Article 11 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Frederick County," sub-title "Mechanics-
town" (now Thurmont), be and the same are hereby repealed,
and to substitute in lieu thereof the following:

SEC. 313. That the male citizens of said town of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United
States, who shall have resided in said town for and during the
space of six months preceding, shall, on the second Monday of
April in each and every year at the usual place of holding elec-
tions in said town, elect five commissioners, who shall have re-

sided within the taxable limits of said town one year next pre-
ceding the election, one of whom shall be designated by the
voters as president and another of whom shall be designated by
the voters as secretary, the said commissioners shall enter upon

the discharge of their duties within ten days after their election.
SEC. 317. The president shall preside at the meetings of said
commissioners and preserve decorum, give such directions as
may be deemed neeessary to carry into effect the provisions of
this charter and perform such other duties as may be assigned
him by the commissioners; the secretary shall record the minutes
of the meetings of said commissioners in a well bound book and
shall perform such other duties as may be assigned him by the
said commissioners; in case of the death, disqualification, resig-.
nation or declination to serve, of either or both the president or