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SEC. 11. And be it f wilier enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public safety and health, and being passed
upon the yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the
members elected to each of the two Houses of the General As-
sembly, the same shall take effect from the day of its passage.

Approved April 3rd., 1922.

CHAPTER 375.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 4 of
the Charter of the town of Greensboro, as said section was
enacted by Chapter 284 of the Acts of 1906, relating to the
right of women to vote in the town elections in said town
of Greensboro.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 4 of the Charter of the town of Greensboro,
as said section was enacted by Chapter 284 of the Acts of
1906, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

4. The male and female inhabitants of Greensboro, citizens
of the State of Maryland and of the United States above the

age of twenty-one years, who have resided in said town for at
least six months next preceding the election and who are as-
sessed on the tax books of said town with real or personal prop-
erty to the value of at least one hundred dollars, or females
whose husbands are assessed to the above amount, and all other
male and female residents of said town possessed of the quali-
fications of citizenship, age and residence as aforesaid, who
shall on or before the third Monday in March of each year
pay to the treasurer or bailiff of said town a sum of money
equal to the tax rate for that year on one hundred dollars, and
receive a receipt therefor, and no others, shall on the fourth
Monday of April annually, between the hours of one and five
o'clock in the afternoon, at such places as the Commissioners
of said town shall appoint, elect by ballot five persons, resi-
dent and qualified voters of said town and who shall be assessed
on the tax books thereof with at least three hundred dollars'
worth of property, as Commissioners of Greensboro, who shall
hold their office for one year and until their successors are duly
elected and qualified.