PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1185

at said election on the second Monday in May, 1914, shall have
qualified, but no longer.

SEC. 184-A3. The Mayor and Council of Midland shall
cause to be made and maintained a registration of the. legal
voters of said town, annually, which registration shall be es-
sential to the right to vote at any election under this charter,
but shall not be conclusive evidence of the right to vote. And
the Mayor and Council shall, annually, on or before the third
Monday in April, appoint two persons as officers of registra-
tion, who shall. sit in public for one day from nine o 'clock
A. M. to twelve o'clock noon, and from one o'clock P. M. to
five o'clock P. M., and from seven o'clock P. M. to nine o'clock
P. M., and the said officers of registration shall give at least
one week's notice by publication in one or more newspapers
published in Allegany County, or by handbills publicly posted
or distributed, of the time and place of their sitting, which
time must not be less than one week before the election, at
which time and place of their sitting all the qualified voters,
legally entitled to vote, may register; and the said officers
of registration, before entering upon their duties, shall take
an oath, before some Justice of the Peace of Allegany County,
to permit every qualified voter and none other to register; and
each of said registration officers shall have the power to do
any and all things required by this Section, or necessary in
order to properly register a qualified voter, in case one of said
officers of registration shall refuse to serve, or be unable to
serve through death, sickness, or any other cause; and upon
the completion of the registration of voters; the said officers of
registration shall deliver to the judges of election a list of the
qualified voters, so registered, and shall. receive such compensa-
tion as the Mayor and Council of said town shall determine.

SEC. 184-A 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of
Mayor unless he'shall have attained the age of twenty-five years,
shall have resided in the town limits of Midland, as prescribed
in the plat and survey thereof on record in the Clerk's Office,
of Allegany County, for three years next preceding his election,
and shall also be assessed on the tax books of the Town of
Midland with an amount not less than Two Hundred Dollars
in real property, the tax on which shall not be in arrears. The
Mayor elected at any regular election shall hold office for one
year from the first Monday in June next after his election and
until his successor is elected and qualified. Should a vacancy
occur in the office of Mayor more than six months before the