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may be registered. The said notice shall be given by hand-
bills posted in at least five public places in said town. And
the said officers of registration shall take oath before some
justice of the peace of Allegany County to permit every quali-
fied voter to register and none other, and upon the completion
of the registry of votes, the officers herein named shall give
the judges of election a list of the names so registered.

SEC. 11. And be if further enacted, That Thomas Hay-
wood, William Wright and O. P. Maxwell be and they are
hereby appointed judges of election to hold the first election
under this Act for the first town officials, and at least ten
days before the first Monday of October, 1922, they shall give
notice that the election shall be held and the time and place
thereof by handbills posted in at least five public places in
said town, at which election all persons qualified as provided
in this Act shall be entitled to vote for one person for Mayor
and four persons for Commissioners, and such judges of elec-
tion, before opening the polls, shall take oath before some jus-
tice of the peace in Allegany County to permit every qualified
voter to vote and none other, and the majority of said judges
shall have power to do all things herein provided in case one
should die or refuse to act.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate 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 passage.

Approved March 21st. 1922.

CHAPTER 74.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Board of Education
of Somerset County to furnish free transportation to and
from the Mount Vernon High School in said county, and to
authorize and direct the County Commissioners of said coun-
ty to levy a sufficient sum of money to pay the cost of same

(Vetoed. )