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title "Frostburg, " be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

Section 134. The male citizens of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, who have resided in the town of Frostburg
one year next preceding the election, shall elect on the first
Tuesday of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and
every two years thereafter, one person who shall be a qual-
ified voter of said town, as Mayor of Frostburg; and said
person so elected shall, at the time of his election, and during
his full term of office, own real estate in said town of the as-
sessed value of at least five hundred dollars.

Section 143. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg may
allow its clerk, Treasurer, Bailiff, Policemen and other officers
such reasonable compensation for their services as they may
deem proper, and shall have the power to dismiss any of them
at pleasure. The Mayor shall receive three hundred dollars
per annum as his salary and the Councilmen shall receive one
hundred dollars each per annum as their salary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall not become
effective unless at the town election to bo held in the town of
Frostburg on the first Tuesday in April, 1917, there shall be
cast a majority of the votes in favor of increasing the salary
of the Mayor and City Councilmen, and there shall be placed
on the ballots the words "For Salary Increase" and "Against
Salary Increase. "

Approved March 21st, 1916.

CHAPTER 59.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Somerset
County to pay to Lethia Somers Wilson an annual pension
of One Hundred and Sixty ($160. 00) Dollars, and to levy
said amount on the assessable property of said County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Somerset Coun-
ty be and they are hereby authorized, empowered and directed
to grant a pension of One Hundred and Sixty ($160. 00) Dol-
lars, annually to Mrs. Lethia Somers Wilson, who was a school
teacher in said County for seventeen years, and who was