270 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 168

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 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 168.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
2-D of Chapter 270 of the Laws of Maryland, 1922; to
provide for the election, of officers of the Mayor and Com-
mon Council of Hyattsville, the appointment of election
officials and the designation of polling places.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 2-D of Chapter 270 of the Laws of
Maryland, 1922, be repealed and re-enacted with amendments,
to read as follows:

Section 2-D. That all elections to fill the offices of Mayor,
Councilman and Treasurer and for other purposes shall be by
ballot, and shall be held on the first Monday in May in each
year, except as otherwise provided by law. No persons shall
be allowed to vote in any election in said town except those
persons whose names shall appear upon the register of voters
in the ward where such persons shall appear to vote and who
shall be actual residents, as hereinafter defined, of said town
upon the day of election. The Mayor and Common Council
shall annually appoint two judges and two clerks, who shall
themselves be registered voters, to conduct the election in
each of said wards; provided that whenever there is only
one candidate nominated for Mayor or Treasurer of said town
or only one candidate nominated for Councilman in any ward
thereof, there being no, or only one candidate nominated for
Mayor and/or Treasurer, the election for such offices shall
be held in such ward or wards as the said Mayor
and Common Council shall direct, and judges and clerks
shall be appointed to conduct the election only in the
wards in which elections are so directed to be held.
The judges and clerks of any ward in which the said
Mayor and Common Council shall direct the election of
any other ward or wards to be held, shall, in addition to con-