246 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 96

City of Cumberland for one year, and registered or entitled to
registration as a voter in Allegany County.

105. Women shall be eligible for all municipal offices or
positions provided for in the preceding sections of this Act, and
wherever the masculine gender is used in the preceding sec-
tions of this Act it shall be construed to include the feminine
gender; provided, however, that women, before being eligible
for any municipal office or position, must possess the same qual-
ifications as to property, age and all other matters that men are
required by this Act to possess for said municipal office or
. position.

106. The said Mayor and City Council may at any time
provide by ordinance for the codification, or re-codification of
such ordinances as have been or may hereafter be passed by
them and for the printing of such codification or re-codification
thereof and the printed copy thereof issued by authority and
under the sanction of said Mayor and City Council shall be
legal evidence of the passage of said ordinances and the con-
tents thereof in any court of law or equity in this State.

107. All ordinances, resolutions, rules and regulations, now
in force in the City of Cumberland, and not in conflict with
the provisions of this Act shall remain in force under this Act,
until altered, amended or repealed by said Mayor and City
Council after this Act takes effect. It is especially provided
that whenever in this Act bonds are required to be given by the
various persons therein named, the said Mayor and City Coun-
cil may, if they so decide require a bonding company, of recog-
nized solvency to be secured on any or all of said bonds, instead
of requiring personal security.

And it is further provided that nothing in this Act shall be
taken or construed to impair the obligations of outstanding
legal contracts of the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland.

108. All rights, titles and interests heretofore acquired by
the said Mayor and City Council of Cumberland, or any other
persons or corporations, in and to all liens for paving, grading,
curbing, sewering, repaving, regrading, recurbing, resewering
or otherwise improving the streets, lanes and alleys of said
city, under Sections 68, 68a, 68b, 69, 70, a and 70b of Arti-
cle 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of the State of Mary-
land, or under any amendments thereto or under any other
laws of the State of Maryland under which said liens may