1464 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

persons registered voters and taxpayers of said City and not
office holders under the City Government who shall constitute a
Board of Election. Supervisors for the City of Havre de Grace,
one of whom shall be appointed for three years, one for two
years, and one for one year, and until their respective succes-
sors shall be appointed and qualified. And on or before the
first Monday in June in the year nineteen hundred and three
and annually thereafter on or before said date the Mayor shall
likewise appoint a citizen having the qualification aforesaid
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term
of the retiring member of said Board. And in the event of
the death, resignation or removal from the City of any member
of said Board the Mayor shall in like manner appoint a citizen
having the qualifications aforesaid to fill out the unexpired
term thereby occasioned. No member of said Board shall be
eligible to an elective office under the City Government during
the term for which he is appointed.

Before entering upon the discharge of their duties said
Supervisors of Election shall each take and subscribe before
some justice of the peace of Harford County, the following
oath of office: —

"I,........................... residing in the City of

Havre de Grace, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a
legal voter and taxpayer in the City of Havre de Grace; that T
will support the Constitution of the United States, and that I
will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the State of Mary-
land and support the Constitution and laws thereof; and that
I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of Super-
visor of Election for the said City of Havre de Grace to the
best of my ability. "

The said Board shall organize annually by electing one of
their number to be President, and they shall receive such com-
pensation as the Mayor and City Council may by ordinance
prescribe.

Section 281. On the second Monday in April in each year
in which a municipal election is to be held, the Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors shall sit for three hours, between nine o'clock
A. M., and twelve o'clock noon, at the Council Chamber in said
City, to receive nomination papers of candidates for the several
elective offices to be filled at the next ensuing election, and they
shall give at least two weeks' previous notice of the time and
place of said sitting in two newspapers if so many be published
in said City. The manner of nominating candidates shall be