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same any and all contiguous or other territory; provided, how-
ever, that said additional territory shall not extend beyond the
distance of one mile from the present limits and boundaries
as hereinbefore set forth.

For the removal and abatement of nuisance, to carry out and
enforce all sanitary regulations, and for the apprehension of
all disorderly persons, vagrants and their associates, the said
Mayor and Councilmen shall have jurisdiction for one mile
beyond the city limits as now located or as they may here-
after from time to time be located under the provisions of this
Act.

Section 134. The citizens of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, who have resided in the Town of Frostburg one
year next preceding the election, shall elect on the first Tues-
day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, and every
two years thereafter, one person who shall be a qualified voter
of said Town, as Mayor of Frostburg; and said person so
elected shall at the time of his or her election, and during
his or her full term of office, own real estate in said Town of
the assessed value of at least Five Hundred Dollars.

The Mayor of Frostburg, elected by the qualified voters of
said Town at the election held on the first Tuesday of April,
1925, for a term of office heretofore fixed by law at two years;
shall hold office for an additional year and there shall be no

election held on the first Tuesday of April, 1927, for the
election of said Mayor, it being the intent and purpose of
this provision that the term of the Mayor and all the Council-
men of said Town shall expire at one and the same time and
that hereafter general elections in said Town for the pur-
pose of electing the Mayor and Councilmen shall be conducted
every two years instead of every year.

Section 135. There shall be four Councilmen all of whom
shall be elected on the first Tuesday of April in the year 1928,
and biennially thereafter by the persons qualified to vote for
Mayor as prescribed by the preceding Section and each Coun-
cilman so elected shall hold office for two years. Either men

or women possessing the qualifications hereafter set forth, shall
be eligible to hold said office. Said Councilmen shall be citi-
zens of the United States, residents of the said Town for one
year next preceding their election, and qualified to vote at
such election in the Ward in which they reside; they shall at
the time of their election and during their full term of office