376 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 189

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public safety, and being passed
upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its pass-
age.
Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 189.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
196-E of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, title "Talbot County," sub-title "St.
Michaels," as enacted by Chapter 239 of the Acts of 1908.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 196-E of Article 21 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County," sub-title
"St. Michaels," as enacted by Chapter 239 of the Acts of
1908, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

196-E. The year for improving and repairing the streets,
lanes, alleys and thoroughfares and for opening- and grading
the gutters, ditches and drains of the town of St. Michaels, in
order to maintain and promote the health of the residents of
said town, shall be reckoned from the first day of the month
of April inclusive, to the thirty-first day of the month of
March following, inclusive, and every able-bodied male person
between the ages of twenty-one years and sixty years, who has
resided in said town for the three calendar mouths next pre-
ceding the first day of April, shall be bound to work on said
streets, lanes, alleys, thoroughfares, gutters, ditches and drains
of said town for two days in every year, as the year is herein
defined, and if any person who is liable hereunder fails to
attend and perform the service aforesaid, as directed by notice
from the Commissioners of St. Michaels, at any time during
the above defined year, when said Commissioners shall deem
the service essential to the health and for the benefit of the
residents of said town, or if any person shall appear and fail,
or refuse, to render the service aforesaid, when and in the man-