ALBERT C. RITCHTE, GOVERNOR 1301

ou conviction, subject the offender to punishment by a fine of
not less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars, or to imprisonment for not less than one month nor
more than six months, or to both fine and imprisonment, in the
discretion of the court. The said judges of election shall re-
turn the ballots and the said poll books to the Mayor of the
City of Annapolis within twenty-four hours after the closing
of said polls.

SECTION 28 D. And be it further enacted, That the ques-
tion of whether that portion of Anne Arundel County de-
scribed in Section 28 B of this Act shall be annexed to and
become a part of the City of Annapolis, shall be submitted to
the qualified registered voters residing within the said portion
of Anne Arundel County, and the taxpayers on property em-
braced therein, at a, special election to be held for this pur-
pose on the fourth Tuesday in June, 1920, for which election
there shall be one polling place in the territory described in
Section 28 B of this Act, and all persons entitled to vote at
said election shall vote at said polling place, and all the pro-
visions contained in Section 28 C of this Act for the holding
of the special election therein mentioned, and for ascertaining
and declaring the result thereof, shall be applicable to the elec
tion to be held under this section, except that the judges and
clerk shall be residents of and voters in that portion of Anne
Arundel County described in Section 28 B of this Act; and
if it shall appear by the proclamation of the Mayor of the
City of Annapolis, so to be issued, that a majority of all the
votes cast at the election provided for in this section were cast
for the City Extension, therefrom and after the first day of
July, 1920, all that part of Anne Arundel County described in
Section 28 B of this Act shall become and be a part of the City
of Annapolis.

SECTION 28 E. And be it further enacted, That said judges
shall be conservators of the peace during the continuance of
the election so held by them, and until the ballots shall have
been counted by them and the necessary certificates required
by this Act shall be made out, and shall be vested with the
power and authority to commit offenders for any breach of
the peace in like manner as any justice of the peace has under
existing laws, and the Sheriff of Anne Arundel County shall
have in attendance at each of said polls a deputy sheriff to pre-
serve order and arrest offenders.