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vote was taken, and tlie result of said vote; one of said certifi-
cates he shall forthwith deliver to the Clerk of the Court of
Appeals who shall, upon receipt of the same, attach it to the
original copy of said law and file in his office; the remaining
certificate shall be retained by the Secretary of State until the
adjournment of the next succeeding session of the General
Assembly, whether regular or extraordinary, and shall there-
upon be delivered by him to the person selected by the Gov-
ernor to compile and index the laws passed at such session of
the General Assembly.

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, 1022.

CHAPTER 442.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the town of Kensington
as contained in Chapter 78. Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1898.

Be it'enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Mary-
land, That Sections 4, 6, 7, 8 and the last paragraph of Section
16 of Chapter 78, Acts of the General Assembly of 1898, be
amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4. The citizens of the Town shall, on the first Monday
in June, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four, and
every second year thereafter on the first Monday in June, at
such place or places as shall be designated by the Judges of
Election, between the hours of and elect by ballot one
person, Mayor of the Town, whose term of office shall commence
on the first day of July following his election, and who shall
serve for a term of two years or until his successor is elected
and qualified. The citizens aforesaid shall, on the first Monday
in June, 1923, elect two persons to be members of the Council
of said Town, who shall serve for a term of two years, or until
their successors are elected and qualified, and whose term of
office shall commence July 1, 1923, and they, with the two coun-