546 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

registration list shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit
Court for Worcester County, Maryland, within five days from
the decision appealed from and the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County shall hear said appeals before the second Mon-
day in May; and on the docketing of such appeal cases the
Clerk, of the Circuit Court for Worcester County shall issue
summons for the person whose right to vote is in question,
returnable at the hour and place to 'be fixed by the Court for
hearing of such cases. The registration by revision shall con-
tinue for nine years, but every tenth year there shall be an
entirely new general registration, the intermediate years being
by revision, that is to say, in the year 1920, there shall be a
new general registration and again in 1930, and every tenth
year thereafter, the registration in intermediate years being
by revision as aforesaid. The right of appeal herein provided
for shall apply both to general and intermediate registration
years.

398. The Mayor shall publish in one or more newspapers
published in said town, at least ten days prior to holding each
election, notice thereof, which notice shall state the object of
such election, the day and hour of holding and the officers to
be voted for, and the Mayor shall publish in one or more news-
papers published in said town, at least two days prior to hold--
ing each election the name or names of the persons eligible
for election and the office for which each such person is
eligible. He shall also appoint, three days prior to holding
such elections, three citizens, qualified voters of said town,
to act as judges of elections, who, before entering upon the
discharge of their duties, shall take oath before the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Worcester County, to act fairly and
impartially as judges of election for Mayor and Councilmen;
and in case of failure of said persons so appointed to appear
and qualify, the Mayor shall issue a certificate to one or more
persons to act as such judge or judges, who shall qualify as
above; they shall appoint one of their own number as clerk;
they shall keep the polls open from 2 o'clock P. M. to 6
o'clock P. M., and they shall, within two days after the elec-
tion, return, under their hands, the number of votes cast for
eligible candidates for election, and for whom cast, with a
copy of their oath, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County, who shall file the same at once and issue cer-
tificates of elections to the eligible persons receiving the largest
number of votes; said certificates shall be recorded among the