ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1245
CHAPTER 499.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 3
and 35 of the Charter of North Beach, in Calvert County, as
amended by Chapter 107 of the Acts of 1924, said amendments
authorizing persons offending and committing acts in disre-
gard of the ordinances of the Council to be tried before the
Police Magistrate of said town; and altering the qualifica-
tions requisite for an elector of said town; and removing
certain provisos in said Section 3.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 3 sand 35 of the Charter of North Beach,
in Calvert County, as amended by Chapter 107 of the Acts of
1924, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:
3. On the first Tuesday following the first Monday in Novem-
ber, 1930, and biennially thereafter, the qualified electors
of North Beach shall vote for a Mayor, treasurer and six coun-
cilmen, who shall each have the qualifications requisite for an
elector of said town, and said Mayor and councilmen shall to-
gether constitute the Council of the said town; that an elector
of said town shall be any citizen of the United States of
the age of twenty-one years or over who, on the day of
election and continuously for a period of ninety days prior to
registration shall be the owner of at least one thousand square
feet of land in North Beach, whether such real estate be held
individually, jointly or as tenant by the entirety, and the
husband or wife, as the case may be of such owner, or any citizen
of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, or over who
is a legal voter in the State of Maryland, and who on the day
of election is and for a period of one year prior to registration
has been a resident of North Beach, Md.
35. All fines, penalties and/or forfeitures imposed by this
charter or by any ordinance of the Council may be collected in
the name of North Beach before the Mayor or Police Magistrate
appointed for said Town, or any justice of the peace of Calvert
County, and such officers; are hereby given jurisdiction to try,
hear and determine all offences and acts committed in disregard
of the ordinances of the Council, and the delinquent may be
committed to the town or county jail in default of the payment
of such fines, penalties and/or forfeitures and costs.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.
Approved April 11, 1929.
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