544 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

land of 1920, title "Snow Hill, " as said Section 394 was
amended by Chapter 297 of the Acts of 1920, be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
and that a new section be added to said Article, to be known
as Section 405A and to follow immediately after Section 405
of said Article so as to read respectively as follows:

394. On or before the second Tuesday in April, 1920, the
City Council of Snow Hill shall appoint two officers of regis-
tration for the town of Snow Hill who shall 'on the second
Thursday in April, 1920, and the following Wednesday after
having been duly sworn before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Worcester County, Maryland, to faithfully discharge their
duties, as such registration officers, attend at the usual place
of voting in the Municipal Building in the town of Snow
Hill for the purpose of registering the hereinafter designated
citizens of Snow Hill as qualified voters in the Municipal
Elections hereinafter mentioned; and no person shall be regis-
tered by said registration officers unless he is a citizen of the
United States who has never been convicted of any infamous
crime either in this State or elsewhere and unless he has
resided within the State of Maryland for one year and in the
corporate limits of the town of Snow Hill for six months next
preceding the election and who is above the age of twenty-one
years and able to read and write any section of the Constitu-
tion of the State of Maryland. The said Registration Officers
shall sit each of the above mentioned days from eight o'clock
in the morning until six o'clock in the evening and at the
close of the second day shall return their registration book
signed and certified by them to the Secretary of the said City
Council of Snow Hill, who shall preserve the same and deliver
it to the Judges of Election hereinafter mentioned; and no
person whose name does not appear on said registration list
shall be entitled to vote at any town elections, but every person
whose name does so appear shall be entitled to so vote; and on
the first Monday in May, 1920, and every second year there-
after such qualified voters shall elect by ballot one person
to be Mayor and one person to be Councilman and on the first
Monday in May, 1921, and every second year thereafter, two
persons as Councilmen to succeed those whose term of office
is about to expire, it being intended that there shall hereafter
only be three Councilmen; but no person shall be eligible for
election either as Mayor or Councilmen unless he shall file,
not less than ten clays before said election with the Secretary