ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 1303

city as set forth in this Act, then upon the tax books of Alle-
gany County, the taxes on which shall not be in arrears; each
councilman shall be the bona fide owners of property to the
value of Five Hundred ($500. 00) Dollars and assessed for the.
same on the tax books of the said City at the time of their elec-
tion, and for two years next prior thereto. If he has resided
within the former limits of said City, or in. the event that he
has resided without said limits but within the limits of said
city as set forth in this Act, then upon the tax books of Alle-
gany County, the taxes on which shall not be in arrears; and
the said Mayor and City Councilmen shall hold office for a
period of two years from the first Monday in April next suc-
ceeding their election and until their successors shall have been
duly elected and qualified.

103. The Mayor and City Council of Cumberland shall
cause to be maintained a registration of the legal voters in
the city wards and precincts of said city, and the general
registration heretofore made in 1922 shall, together with such
additions, changes and alterations, as may have been made
in accordance with the law in force at the time of said regis-
tration, and together with such additions, changes and altera-
tions as may be, or become necessary, constitute such registra-
tion; said registration shall be corrected in the manner pro-
vided in the General Registration Law of the State, and shall
specify the residence of the voter in each street, lane or alley,
and such registration shall be essential to the right of voting
at any election under this Charter, but shall not be conclu-
sive evidence of such right to vote; all applicants for regis-
tration must be citizens of the State of Maryland, and resi-
dent in the territory of the City of Cumberland as set forth
in this Act for one year, and registered or entitled to regis-
tration as a voter in Allegany County; said Mayor and City
Council shall in any year that an election is to be held in
said city under the Charter thereof, on or before the first Mon-
day in February in such year elect two persons of opposite
political faith in each precinct to act as officers of registration,
who shall sit as officers of registration at the usual polling
places in each precinct on the third and fourth Monday of
February, in the year of said election from the hours of 9 A. M.
to 8 P. M. each day, and ten days' public notice of such sit-
ting shall be given by the City Clerk by advertisement in at
least two of the daily newspapers of said city.