166 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 83

officers of registration appointed under Section 163A of this
Article shall, (at their annual sitting) in pursuance of the
provisions of said section make such changes, alterations and
transfers as may be necessary for making1 and maintaining
correct lists of the qualified voters in each of said wards.

143. The Mayor and Councilmen of Frostburg may allow
their clerk, treasurer, bailiff, policeman and other officers such
reasonable compensation for their sendees as they may deem
proper, and shall have the power to dismiss any of them at
pleasure. The Mayor shall receive a salary of six hundred
dollars per annum, and the Councilmen shall each receive a
salary of three hundred dollars per annum; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall affect the Mayor and Council-
men whose term of office has not yet expired.

163A. The Mayor and Councilmen shall cause to be made
and maintained a registration of the legal voters of said town,
and the registration shall be made under the direction of the
Mayor and Councilmen during the month of March, in the
years 1924 and 1925, and biennially thereafter, and
the registration so made under the authority of the law
shall, together with such additional changes or alterations as
may be or become necessary, constitute such registration.
Said registration shall be made and corrected in the manner
provided in the general registration law of the State, and shall
specify the residence of the voters on each street, lane and
alley, and such registration shall be essential to the right of
voting at any election under the Charter, but shall not be con-
clusive evidence of such right to vote; said Mayor and Coun-
cilmen shall on or before the second Monday in February in
the years 1924 and 1925, and biennially thereafter, elect two
persons of opposite politics to act as Officers of Registration,
who shall sit as Officers of Registration at the Council Cham-
ber not less than three days, of eight hours each, commencing
on the third Monday of March, in the years 1924, 1925, and
biennially thereafter, and ten days' public notice of such sit-
ting shall be given by advertisement in the newspapers of said
town.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That at the regular
municipal election to be held in April, 1924. there shall be
submitted to the qualified voters of the town of Frostburg the
question whether the Charter of the town shall be amended
as proposed by this Act, and upon the ballots to be used at said