94 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 50

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1st, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 4, 7
and 16 of the Charter of the town of Kensington, as amended
by Chapter 442 of the Acts of 1922, changing the hours for.
holding elections and the time for publishing the statement
of appropriations and expenditures.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 4, 7 and 16 of the Charter of the town of
Kensington, as said sections were amended by Chapter 4 of the
Acts of 1922, be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments to read as follows:

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, be-
tween the hours of six o'clock, P. M., and nine o'clock, P. M.,
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. 1924, elect two per-
sons 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,
1924, and they, with the two councilmen elected at the
election held in said Town on the first Monday in May.
1923, for two years from said date, shall constitute the Council
of said Town, with the Mayor. The citizens of the Town shall
elect, on the first Monday in June of each year thereafter, two
persons to be members of the Council of said Town, who shall
serve for two years, or until their successors are elected and
qualified, and whose terms of office shall commence on the 1st
day of July immediately following their election. The quali-
fications for voters, Mayor and Councilmen, shall be the same
as prescribed for voters by the Laws of this State. They must
have resided within the corporation limits of said Town for at
least six months next preceding their election, the Mayor and