ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1351

April and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The
said Mayor and Commissioners shall have power to fill by ap-
pointment all vacancies occuring from death, removal, resigna-
tion or any other cause, whether in the office of Mayor or
Commissioners, or in any other office provided for in this Act.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and
Commissioners, Clerk and Bailiff shall qualify by taking and
subscribing the following oath, to be administered by some
Justice of the Peace in Allegany County: "I, .........................

do swear that I will execute the office of Mayor, Commission-
ers, Clerk or Bailiff, of the Town of Westernport, as the case
may be, to the best of my ability, without favor, partiality or
prejudice." Which oath shall be filed among the records of
the town.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Commissioners of Westernport shall cause to be maintained a
registration of the legal and qualified voters residing within
the corporate limits of the Town of Westernport; said regis-
tration shall specify the residence of the voters on each street,
lane and alley and such further information as the Mayor and
Commissioners of Westernport may consider necessary to show
their qualifications as such voters, and such registration shall
be essential to the right to vote at any election held under the
charter of Westernport, the Mayor and Commissioners of
Westernport shall annually on the first Monday in January,
of each year appoint two persons, being citizens of the Town
of Westernport and qualified voters therein to act as officers of
said registration and they shall sit for the purpose of regis-
tering voters at the Council Chamber in said town or at such
other place as may be designated by the Mayor and Commis-
sioners on the first Monday in February in each year. They
shall sit not less than nine (9) hours and ten days' public
notice of the said sitting shall be given prior thereto by adver-
tisement by way of hand bills posted in not less than ten public
places within the corporate limits of the Town of Westernport,
After causing the registration of the duly qualified voters, they
shall return, the said list to the Mayor and Commissioners of
Westernport. Before the said officers of registration shall sit
for this purpose they shall go before a Justice of the Peace for
Allegany County, and make oath in due form of law that they
will only permit the registration of such person or persons as