ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 497

follow immediately after Section 13C, relating to assessing
the binding property for establishing, improving, opening,
widening or extending any sidewalk and the manner of
collecting such assessments; and to repeal Section 29 there-
of relating to the Mayor and Council's obligation to receive
bids for certain work.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of
Gaithersburg, in Montgomery County, as said Charter was
enacted by Chapter 351 of the Acts of 1914, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, and that
four new sections be and they are hereby added to said Char-
ter, to be known as Sections 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D, to follow imme-
diately after Section 3 of said Charter, and all to read as
follows:

3. The residents of said town having the qualifications pre-
scribed for voters by this Act, shall on the first Monday in May,
1930, and every two years thereafter on the same day, elect one
person, at least thirty (30) years of age, Mayor of said town,
who with four other persons not less than twenty-five (25)
years of age, elected as herein provided, who together with the
Mayor, shall constitute the Council, and all of whom shall
have resided in the town at least one year previous to their
election, and be legal voters and taxpayers therein, and shall
so continue during their term of office. They shall receive no
pay for their services as such, except the Mayor, who shall
receive the fees hereinafter allowed.

The Mayor shall serve for two years from the first Monday
in June ensuing after such election. The two members of the
Council who were elected in 1928, shall serve their four years
from the first Monday in June, 1928, and there shall be, at the
said election on the first Monday in May, 1930, two members
of the Council elected to serve four years, and an election shall
be held on the first Monday in May every two years thereafter
for the election of two to the Town Council, and provided
also that on the first Monday in May every two years a Mayor
shall be elected, beginning with the election in May, 1930.

3A. Every citizen of Gaithersburg who has resided within
the corporate limits of the said town for three consecutive
months next preceding any town election, and who reaches the
age of twenty-one years, on or before the date of any town