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such registration shall be essential to the right of voting at any
election under the Charter, but shall not be conclusive evidence
of such right to vote; said Mayor and Councilmen shall on or
before the second Monday in February in the year 1928, 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 Chamber not less than three days,
of eight hours each, commencing on the third Monday of March,
in the year 1928, and biennially thereafter, and ten days public
notice of such sitting shall be given by advertisement in some
newspaper published either in Frostburg or Cumberland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health or safety and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the Gen-
eral Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 196.

AN ACT to add a new section to Chapter 180 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of the year 1910,
commonly known as the Public Service Commission Law, to
be known as Section 2-A, and to follow immediately after
Section 2 of said Act, authorizing the Public Service Com-
mission to make joint investigations, hold joint hearings,
and issue joint or concurrent orders in conjunction or con-
currence with any official board or commission of any state
or of the United States, under agreements or compacts be-
tween states or under the concurrent power of states to reg-
ulate interstate commerce or as an agency of the Federal
Government, or otherwise.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and is hereby added to Chap-
ter 180 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of the year 1910, commonly known as the Public Service Com-
mission Law, to be known as Section 2-A, to follow imme-
diately after Section 2 of said Act, and to read as follows: