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entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Sykesville in Car-
roll and Howard Counties, Maryland"; and that Sections 12,
9A and 9B of said Act as the same were enacted or re-enacted
by Chapter 232 of the Acts of 1908, be and the same are here-
by repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows:

3. The citizens of said town of the age of twenty-one years
or upwards who shall possess the qualifications of legally regis-
tered voters of this State, and who shall have resided in said
town for the space of 6 months next preceding the date: of
the election at which they shall offer to vote, shall on the first
Tuesday of May, 1929, and on said day in every second year
thereafter, at such place as shall be selected by the Mayor
and Common Council of Sykesville for the holding of the elec-
tion, elect one person, a, legal voter of said town, who has re-
sided therein for two years at least next preceding the elec-
tion, to be Mayor of said town, who shall hold his office for
2 years and until his successor shall have been elected and
qualified. And on said first Tuesday of May, 1929, at the
same time and place of the election of the Mayor, the said
qualified voters shall elect six persons, to be Common Coun-
cilmen, who shall possess the same qualifications as the Mayor
of the said town. The three having the highest number of
votes shall serve for a* term of 4 years from the date of their
election, and until their successors are duly elected and quali-
fied, and the 3 having the next highest number of votes shall
serve for a term of 2 years and until their successors are duly
elected and qualified, and thereafter at each biennial election
for Mayor the qualified voters of said town shall elect 3 Com-
mon Councilmen to serve for a term of 4 years. "No person
shall be eligible as Mayor or as Councilman of said town
unless he be an owner in fee simple of real estate in said town
in his name to the amount of at least five hundred dollars,
and shall so remain during his term of office; and his term
of office shall terminate upon his removal of residence from
the town limits. Neither the Mayor nor any of the Council-
men shall during their term of office hold or be interested in
any office under the corporation, or be a party, directly or in-
directly, to any contract or undertakings entered into on the
part of said town.

9A. The Mayor and Common Council of Sykesville be and
they are hereby authorized and empowered whenever in their