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not less than one-half of said estimate; all of said money to be
expended under the direction of the County Road Superintend-
ent.

SEC. 2. 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 and safety, and having
been passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
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 469.

AN ACT to repeal Section 178 of Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot County, " sub-
title "St Michaels, " and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments, and to add two new Sections to said Article 21 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot
County, " sub-title "'St. Michaels, " relating to elections in the
town of St. Michaels and to be numbered Section 178-A and
178-B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 178 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Talbot County, " sub-title "St. Michaels, " be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 178. The Commissioners shall be three in number; and
every citizen of said town of St. Michaels, who has resided in
said town six months next preceding the election and whose
name shall appear upon the list of registered voters of the town,
as hereinafter provided, shall be entitled to vote at all elections
hereafter to be held, but no person who has been convicted of
larceny or other infamous crimes, unless pardoned by the Gov-
ernor, and no person under guardianship as a lunatic or as a
person non compos mentis shall be entitle to vote. The qualified
voters shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in April in each
year, between the hours of one and six o'clock P. M., one person,
above the age of twenty-one years and who has resided in the
said town for over one year immediately preceding said election,
a Commissioner of said town, who shall serve for three years.