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gaged by the said Magistrate, to perform such other duties as
may be required by him of the Sheriff. The Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland shall designate one or more members
of the police force to attend such Magistrate and execute his
process, orders and direction within the corporate limits of
the City of Cumberland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the preser-
vation of public safety and being passed on a Yea and Nay
vote, supported by three-fifths of all members elected to each
of the two houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the day of its passage.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 78.

AN ACT to repeal Section 288 of Chapter 680 of the laws of
Maryland, 1916, and to re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 288 of Chapter 680 of the laws of Mary-
land, 1916, be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Section 288. On the third and fourth Mondays and Tues-
days in April, and on the first Monday and Tuesday in May
in the year nineteen hundred and two, the City Clerk shall sit
at the Council Chamber between the hours of nine o'clock
A. M. and seven o'clock P. M. for the purpose of a new and
general registration of the legally qualified voters of the City
of Havre de Grace. And likewise thereafter an the second
Monday and Tuesday in April of each year in which a muni-
cipal election is to be held the said City Clerk shall likewise
sit during the same hours as officer of registration for said City
for the purpose of registering the legally qualified voters of
said City.

It shall be the duty of said Clerk to enter in alphabetical
order upon the registry book the name of every person appear-
ing before him at the times above specified, and requesting to
be registered: provided he shall be satisfied by the oath of
said person, or otherwise, that he is a citizen of the United
States above the age of twenty-one years and has the property
and other qualifications required by this Act for voters of said