278 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

voters to be voted upon at said election by the Supervisors of
Election, which shall be of glass, and if a majority of the votes
at said election upon said question shall be "For School-house
Bonds," then and not before the County Commissioners of
Kent County shall proceed to execute the powers and duties im-
posed upon them by this Act, but if the majority of the votes
cast at said election upon said question shall be "Against
School-house Bonds," then this Act shall be of no effect.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 193.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 3 and
Section 8 of Chapter 256 of the Acts of 1904, entitled "An Act
to incorporate the town of Sykesville, in Carroll and Howard
Counties, Maryland.''

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 3 and Section 8 of Chapter 256 of the Acts
of 1904 entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Sykesville,
in Carroll and Howard Counties, Maryland," be and the same
are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 3. The male citizens of said town of the age of twenty-
one years and upwards, who shall possess the qualifications of
legally registered voters of this State, and who shall have resided
in said town for the space of six months next preceding the day
ot the municipal election hereinafter provided, shall elect on
the first Tuesday of May in each and every year, at such place
as shall be selected for the holding of the said election, one per-
son, a legal voter of said town, who has resided therein for two
years at least next preceding the election, to be the Mayor of
said town; and six persons to the Common Council of said town,
who shall possess the same qualifications as the Mayor; no per-
son shall be eligible as Mayor or as Common Councilman of said
town, unless he be an owner in fee simple of real estate in said
town in his name to the amount of at least five hundred dollars,
and shall so remain during his term of office, and his term of
office shall terminate upon his removal from the town limits.
Neither the Mayor nor any of the Councilmen shall, during their
term of office, hold or be interested in any office under tire cor-
poration, or be a party directly or indirectly to any contract or
undertaking entered into on the part of said town.