ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 149

Mayor and Commissioners of Luke shall annually appoint
two persons being citizens -of the town of Luke and qualified
voters thereof to act as officers of said registration and they
shall sit for the purpose of registering voters at the Council
Chamber in said town or at such other places as may be desig-
nated by the Mayor and Commissioners on the first Monday in
September, 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 advertisement by way of handbills posted
'in not less than ten public places within the corporate limits
of the town of Luke. After causing the registration of the
duly qualified voters, they shall return the said list to the
Mayor and Commissioners of Luke. 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 are entitled under the provisions of
this Act to be registered as voters of the town of Luke.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor
and Commissioners of Luke shall appoint every year at least
two days before the day of election, three judges to hold elec-
tions; 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 now directed to conduct elections for State and
county officials, as far as may be practicable, after making
oath before some justice of the peace of 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 per-
sons elected at said election, under hands and seals, to the
Mayor and Commissioners of Luke, 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 Septem-
ber, which primary shall be held at least ten days before said
election and 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 bal-
lot, which only can be cast at the election, shall be printed
and supplied to the judges of election by the Mayor and Com-