874 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 395

County, Maryland, and to fix the town limits thereof, de-
fine the persons qualified to vote therein, to provide for and
regulate the election and appointment of officers therefor
and the terms and qualifications of such officers, to define the
method of government thereof, to define the corporate pow-
ers and to provide an election to determine whether or not
the citizens thereof desire to become incorporated."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 4 of Chapter 731 of the Acts of 1920, enti-
tled "An Act to incorporate the town of Riverdale, in Prince
George's County, Maryland, and to fix the town limits thereof,
define the persons qualified to vote therein, to provide for
and regulate the election and appointment of "officers therefor
and the terms and qualifications of such officers, to define the
method of government thereof, to define the corporate powers
and to provide an election to determine whether or not the
citizens thereof desire to become incorporated," be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as- follows:

Sections 4. And be it further enacted, That all citzens
above the age of twenty-one years who shall have resided
within the corporate limits of said town for at least one year
prior to any election shall be qualified to vote for all elective
officers of said town, and the judges of election hereinafter
provided for shall be the sole judges of the right of any per-
son to vote at any town election; provided, however, that in
the election of councilmen only those citizens above the age
of twenty-one years who shall reside within the limits of the
ward which said councilman shall represent shall be qualified
to vote for any such councilman.

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 April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 395.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 10
of Chapter 731 of the Acts of 1920, entitled "An Act to in-