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vote, and who shall be duly registered as hereinafter provided
shall be entitled to vote for said president and commissioners.

SEC. 130-A. That the President and Commissioners of the
said Town of Elkton be and they are hereby authorized and
directed, not later than the 10th day of May, in the year 1914
and by the 1st day of May in every year thereafter to appoint
two Registers of voters for the Town of Elkton, one from each
of the leading political parties of the State; said Registers of
Voters shall receive the same compensation as registers of voters
under the general laws of the State, and shall hold office for
one year and until their successors are duly appointed and quali-
fied ; said registers shall take the usual oath of office before the
President of Elkton and the President and Commissioners of the
Town of Elkton shall procure and deliver to the said registers
of voters two suitable registration books similar in all respects
to registration books now in use under the Election Laws of
Maryland, and shall also designate the place where the regis-
tration shall be held each year.

SEC. 131. Said registers of voters shall open their books of
registration at the place designated as provided by Section
130-A, on the third Monday and Tuesday of May in the year
1914, for a complete registration of the voters of the Town of
Elkton who possess the qualifications required by Section 130,
and every year thereafter on the second Monday in May to regis-
ter new voters and to revise the list of said registration, notice of
which said registration shall be given by hand bills to be posted
in at least ten places in the Town, and at said registration of
voters said registers of voters shall duly register all voters
possessing the qualifications as provided in Section 130, who
shall apply in person for registration. Any register of voters
who shall knowingly violate the provisions of this Act shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be pun-
ished as provided under the General Laws of this State relating
to registration, and said books of registration shall at the close
of each registration be turned over to the President and Com-
missioners of Elkton for safe keeping, and shall by said Presi-
dent and Commissioners be delivered to the judges of any Town
Election for the purpose of holding said Town Election.

SEC. 132. On the fourth Monday in May, nineteen hundred
and fourteen, and every two years thereafter, the duly regis-
tered voters shall elect by ballot a president who shall serve
for two years from that date, and until his successor is duly
elected and qualified, and shall on said fourth Monday in May,