200 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 96

the results thereof. Said canvass by the said City Clerk shall
be publicly done. The two candidates receiving the highest
number of votes for Mayor shall be the candidates, and the only
candidates, whose names shall be placed upon the ballot for
Mayor at the following general municipal election; eight can-
didates receiving the highest number of votes, or all such can-
didates if less than eight, shall be the candidates, and the only
candidates, whose names shall be placed upon the ballot for
Councilmen at such municipal election.

11. It shall be the duty of the Board of Election Super-
visors of Allegany County to order an election to be held in the
City of Cumberland on the third Tuesday of March, 1922,
and in each alternate year thereafter, at which elections the
qualified voters of said city shall select a Mayor and four Coun-
cilmen. In ordering said election the said board shall deter-
mine the places in the City of Cumberland for holding such
elections, and the manner of holding the same shall be gov-
erned by the laws of the State of Maryland governing general
elections, except in the matter of registration of voters, which
shall be governed by the provisions set forth in Sections 104
and 105 of this Act, and in the ordinances of the Mayor and
City Council now made or hereafter made in pursuance thereof,
and in the matter of primaries, which shall be conducted as
herein provided.

The said board shall canvass the returns and declare the
election of the candidates receiving the highest number of votes,
and shall report the result of their canvass to the Mayor and
City Council.

The cost of said election shall be paid by the County Com-
missioners of Allegany County, but shall be refunded to said
County by the City of Cumberland.

The Mayor and each of said Councilmen shall qualify as
required by this Charter and the Constitution of the State
within twenty days after the official announcement of his elec-
tion or appointment, as the case may be, and in case of failure
to so do, his office shall become vacant.

12. The Mayor shall not be less than thirty years of age,
and each of the said four Councilmen shall not be less than
twenty-five years of age at the time of their election; they
shall each of them be citizens of the United States and for five
years immediately preceding their election residents of the
City of Cumberland. The Mayor shall be the bona fide owner