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SECTION 45A. The qualified voters of the Town of Easton,
shall, on the first Monday in May in the year 1920, at the
Engine House, in said town, or such other place or places as
the Mayor and Council of Easton may designate, elect a
Mayor, whose term of office shall be for two years and until
his successor is qualified, and two members of the Council, one
each from the first and third wards, whose term of office shall
also be for two (2) years; and there shall also be elected, at
the same time and place, by the said qualified voters of Easton,
a President of the Council, who shall be chosen at large, and
two members of the Council, one each from the second and
fourth wards, whose terms of office shall be for four (4) years
and until the qualifications of their successors; and at the
expiration of the term of the said Mayor, President and
members of the Council, their successors shall be elected to
serve for a term of four (4) years and until the qualification
of their successors.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That all. Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent with the intent and purpose of this
Act be, and the same are hereby repealed in so far as they or
either of them are inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 3. 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 mem-
bers elected to each of the two houses of the General Assem-
bly, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 5, 1920.

CHAPTER 25.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 629 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1910, entitled "An Act to re-
quire the County Commissioners of Talbot County to pay
annually to the Mayor and Council of Easton of the tax
levied upon the property within the limits of the town
of Easton to the amount of fifteen hundred dollars; and
to repeal so much of Chapter 189 of the Laws of Mary-
land passed at the Session of 1904, as applied to said town
of Easton," and to re-enact the same with amendments.