1352 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 714

are entitled under the provisions of this Act, to be registered
as voters of the. Town of Westernport.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and
Commissioners of Westernport shall appoint every year at
least two days before the day of election, three judges to hold
elections; said judges shall keep the polls open from 9 o'clock
in the morning until 6 o'clock in the afternoon and shall con-
duct the said election in the same manner in which the judges
of election are noAv directed to conduct elections for State
and county officials, as far as may be practicable, after making
oath before some Justice of the Peace for Allegany County
that they will only permit those to vote whose names appear
upon the registration lists as duly qualified voters, and the
said judges shall make their returns as to the votes cast and
persons elected at said election, under hands and seals, to the
Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport, and to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Allegany County, Maryland.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted. That the Mayor and
Commissioners shall cause a call for a primary election to
nominate candidates for municipal officers to be issued each
year at least twenty days before the last Monday in March,
which primary shall be held at least ten days before said elec-
tion and shall receive the return thereof as to the names of
those nominated, who shall by reason of such nomination be
entitled to have their names printed upon the official ballot as
candidates for the office for which they were nominated. The
official ballot, which only can be cast at the election, shall be
printed and supplied to the judges of election by the Mayor
and Commissioners of Westernport, and shall be printed as
nearly as practicable in accordance with the following form.
The date and names to be changed, but the names of all the
candidates for their particular office to be arranged alpha-
betically under the proper designation of the office for which
they are candidates:

OFFICIAL BALLOT.

Town of Westernport, Allegany County,
Maryland,

Election, Monday, March......................

Polls open from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M.