EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 977

preceding the election and who were qualified voters at the last
State or Congressional election, shall on the first Tuesday in
April, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and on the same day
every second year thereafter elect by ballot one person to be
Mayor and likewise on the said first Tuesday in April, nineteen
hundred and sixteen, elect by ballot two persons to be Council-
men, one of whom shall fill out the unexpired term of Henry
B. Pilchard, who lately resigned, and the other shall be elected
for the regular term as provided in the Charter of Pocomoke
City and on the same day in every year thereafter the said
qualified citizens of Pocomoke City shall elect by ballot one
person to be Councilman to succeed the Councilman whose
term of office is then about to expire.

240. The Mayor and Council once in each year shall make
a general levy of taxes on the assessable property of the
town to meet the corporate expenses, requirements and pur-
poses of the town, such taxes not to exceed the rate of fifty
cents on every hundred dollars of assessed property, for
the current expenses alone, together with such further taxes
as are authorized and required by the several Acts authorizing
the issue of town bonds of Pocomoke City, including a levy not
to exceed twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars to meet
the principal and interest of the water and sewer bond of
1898, and not to exceed ten. cents on the one hundred dollars
to meet the principal and interest of the bonds issued under
Chapter 110 of Acts of 1902, and not to exceed ten cents on
the one hundred dollars to meet the principal and interest on
the Pocomoke City Hall Gold Bonds of 1906; and such levy
shall be made in each year between the first day of August and
the first day of September; and whenever the Mayor and Coun-
cil shall make the yearly levy they shall cause to be made out a
list of the parties chargeable with the taxes levied, together with
the aggregate assessment of each person in real and personal
property, and they shall add thereto a copy of the ordinance,
resolution or rule of the Mayor and Council by which the said
levy of taxes was made and the rate of the said levy, signed
by the Mayor and town clerk, and with the corporate seal
thereto affixed, and they shall deliver the same to the tax
collector of said town and it shall be a sufficient warrant to
him to collect the said taxes; provided, that if on account
of death or from any other cause the Mayor and Council
should be unable to make the levy before the first day of Sep-
tember in any year they may make the same later, but not
later than the fifteenth of December; the taxes so levied shall