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tion; and that no one shall be eligible for the office of Mayor
or Councilmen of said town unless he or she shall be a real
estate holder or owner, or husband or wife of a bona-fide real
estate owner of said town; and the Mayor shall have been a
resident of said town for two years previous to his election,
and the Councilmen shall have been residents of said town one
year prior to their election.

Section 138F. That every Mayor and Councilman before he
or she proceeds to act as such shall take oath before some Jus-
tice of the Peace for Garrett County that he or she will dili-
gently and faithfully, according to the best of his or her skill
and judgment, perform the duties of Mayor and Councilman,
as the case may be, without favor, partiality or prejudice; and
a certificate of such qualification shall be returned by the said
Justice of the Peace to the said Council, to be filed and re-
corded among their proceedings.

SEC. 2. 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 87.

AN ACT to repeal Section 74 of Article 12 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Garrett County, " sub-title "Deer
Park, " and Section 85 of said Article 12 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Garrett County, " sub-title "Deer
Park, " as enacted by Chapter 166 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of 1900, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 74 of Article 12 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Garrett County, " sub-title "Deer Park, " and
Section 85 of said Article 12, title "Garrett County, " sub-title
"Deer Park, " as enacted by Chapter 166 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of 1900, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: