316 . LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 132

real estate to the value of not less than one thousand dollars,
'and assessed for the same on the tax books of the said City at
the time of his election and for two years next prior thereto,
the taxes on which shall not be in arrears; each Councilman
shall be a bona fide owner of real estate to the value of not less
than five hundred dollars, and assessed for the same on the tax
books of said City at the time of their election and for two
years next prior thereto, the taxes on which shall not be in
arrears.

At the first election to be held hereunder, the Mayor shall
be elected to hold office for the term of two years, and until
his successor is appointed, elected or qualified, and one of said
Councilmen shall be elected to hold office for four years, and
the remaining Councilmen shall be elected to hold office for
two years, or until their successors are appointed, elected or
qualified; and at all subsequent elections to fill vacancies arising
from the expiration of said term of Councilman, or any of
them, their successors shall be elected to hold office for the term
of four years, and until their successors are appointed, elected
or qualified, and the Mayor shall be elected to hold office for the
term of two years, and until his successor is appointed, elected
or qualified.

SEC. 58. The citizens of said City, of twenty-one years of
age or over, who have resided in said City one year preceding
any election, having the qualifications entitling them to vote
at any State or County election therein, and all citizens of
like age of Somerset County, entitled to vote in any election
district or precinct therein, outside of the City of Crisfield,
and owning any freehold property, or leasehold property for
ninety-nine years renewable, within the limits of said City, for
two years or more before any election in said City, and being
registered voters in said City, shall elect by ballot, on the
first Wednesday in June, 1922, a Mayor and three Council-
men, as provided in the preceding section, and biennially;
thereafter, on the same day Mayor and Councilmen sufficient
to fill the places of those whose terms have expired, and no
person, not entitled to vote as aforesaid and registered as here-
in provided shall be entitled to vote at any election for Mayor
and Council of Crisfield; the said Mayor shall annually ap-
point one person as officer of registration, whose duty it shall
be to enter in proper and convenient books, to be provided by
said Mayor and Council of said City, the names of all persons