ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1091

405. On the first Monday of March 1923, and on the first
Monday of March of each and every year thereafter, an elec-
tion shall be held for the purpose of electing officers of the said
corporation. All citizens of Williamsport twenty-one years of
age who shall have resided within the corporate limits of said
town six months next preceding the election and who are regis-
tered voters of the State of Maryland shall be entitled to vote
at said election. All citizens of Williamsport twenty-one years
of age who are registered voters and who have, during the year
immediately preceding any election, been assessed and paid
taxes on real or personal property in said town, and wTho shall
not be in arears for taxes to said corporation at the time of
said election, shall be eligible to hold any of the offices herein-
after provided for. At the election to be held on the first Mon-
day in March, 1923, and biennially thereafter, there shall be
elected three commissioners, whose term of office shall be for
two years or until their successors are duly qualified, and at
the election to be held on the first Monday in March, 1924, and
biennially thereafter, there shall be elected a Burgess, Assist-
ant Burgess, and two commissioners, whose term of office shall
be for two years, or until their successors are duly qualified.
All elections shall be held at such hours and conducted
according to such regulations as shall from time to time
be prescribed by the by-laws and ordinances of the cor-
poration and not inconsistent with this charter, and all per-
sons so elected in pursuance of this section shall hold over in
office until their successors shall have qualified, which must
be done within ten days from the date of their election. Be-
fore entering their respective offices, the burgess-elect shall
qualify before the clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington
County as to a faithful discharge of duties, in accordance with
the provisions of this charter and ordinances made in pursu-
ance thereof, and shall then be authorized to qualify the re-
maining members-elect and officers of the board to the same
effect.

SEC. 2. And l>e it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 485.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of County Com-
missioners of Howard County to borrow upon the faith