1068 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 405

161. The qualifications of voters in town elections of Ocean
City shall be as follows: A voter, whether man or woman, must
be a citizen of the United States and twenty-one years of age
or over and must be one who for one year next preceeding the
election has been and is, at the time of the election, assessed on
the tax books of said town with, and is the owner of, real or
personal property of the value of at least one hundred dollars,
and if only a part owner then such part interest must be of the
value, according to such assessment, of at least one hundred
dollars, or, being a citizen of the United States and twenty-one
years of age or over, who for one year next preceding the elec-
tion has been and is at the time of the election the owner of
part of the capital stock of any body corporate, which corpora-
tion has been for at least one year next preceeding the election
and at the time of the election is assessed with and is the owner
of real or personal property on the tax books of said town of
the value of more than one hundred dollars, provided the share
or shares of stock of such person, in proportion to all the shares
of stock that have been outstanding for at least one year pre-
ceding said election, represent a proportionate interest in said
assessed property amounting to at least one hundred dollars ac-
cording to the assessed value of such property: and no voter
shall be permitted to vote at any election unless all the town
taxes on all such property that ought then to have been paid
have been paid, or a bond given to the municipal corporation
with sufficient security approved by the Mayor, for their pay-
ment in case there is any controversy with reference to such
taxes. Those persons who so qualify as voters shall
on the first Monday in August, 1924, and every second year
thereafter elect by ballot one person to be Mayor of said City
and three persons to be City Councilmen of said City, all of
whom must be owners of real estate therein and at least two of
the council bona fide residents of said city, to serve two years
from the second Monday in September next after the election and
until their successors are elected and qualified. If any person so
elected as Mayor and City Councilman shall refuse to serve or if
his place shall become vacant by death, resignation, disqualifi-
cation or otherwise, the remaining Councilmen or Councilman
if there is only one, shall fill the vacancy or vacancies as early
as possible from among the qualified voters of said town eligible
to serve as Mayor or Councilmen, and the person so appointed
shall hold his office until the next election; and in case of a tie
between any persons voted for at any election under this Sec-
tion of this Act. the Clerk of Election shall immediately certify