PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 373

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the vestry of Saint Philip's Parish in Prince George's
County, Maryland, shall be chosen in the following manner:

Every white citizen of this State above twenty-one years of
age, resident in said Parish six months next preceding the day of
election, who shall have been entered on the books thereof, at
least one month preceding the day of election as a member of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, and who shall also contribute
to the charges of said Parish such sum as a majority of the ves-
try shall annually within ten days after their election, in writ-
ing, make known and declare not exceeding two dollars, shall
have a right of suffrage in the election of vestrymen for said
Parish; and all persons so qualified shall on the next ensuing
Easter Monday assemble in said Parish in the Parish Church or
if there should at any such time be no such Church in said
Parish then at such other place as the rector of the Parish, or
if there be no rector, as any three or more vestrymen may have
publicly notified to the parishioners; and the said persons so
qualified to vote when assembled or such of them as may assem-
ble in said Parish shall proceed by a majority of votes to elect,
by ballot, eight vestrymen from among the persons qualified to
vote who with the rector of the Parish for the time being, shall
be deemed and considered the vestry of said Parish for the en-
suing year, and the rector of the Parish shall always be one of
the vestry.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of
Section 1 hereof shall not go into effect in Saint Philip's Parish,
Prince George's County, Maryland, until the same have been
submitted to and approved by the Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Washington, of which Dio-
cese the said Saint Philip's Parish is a part.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1st, 1914.

CHAPTER 263.

AN ACT to add new Sections to Article 21 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County," sub-title
"Easton," to be designated.and numbered as Sections 97-EE,
97-FF, 97-GG, 97-HH, 97-II, 97-JJ, 97-KK, 97-LL and 97-MM,