ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 859

election, shall be filed with the Mayor and Town Council, such
ordinance shall be immediately suspended, and the Mayor
and Town Council shall reconsider it, and if it be not re-
pealed, the Mayor and Town Council shall submit it to a
vote of the duly qualified voters of said town at the next elec-
tion, provided, however, that if the next election shall occur
more than ninety days after the date of passage of said ordi-
nance, the Mayor and Town Council shall call a special elec-
tion for the purpose of deciding whether said ordinance shall
or shall not become a law, and the same shall become operative
or repealed by a majority of the votes cast at this election.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose
of conducting elections of the town, the Mayor and Town Coun-
cil of Riverdale Heights shall have full power to appoint two
citizens of the town for the registration of voters, who shall
have all the powers of registration officers for any election in
Prince George's County; the Mayor and Town Council shall
have full power, by ordinance, to provide a reasonable system
of registration of voters in town elections, and in the event
of the passage of such ordinance or ordinances, registration of
voters in accordance with said ordinance or ordinances shall
be necessary before said applicant is qualified to vote; and
the Mayor and Town Council shall, annually, on or before the
first Monday in April, appoint three judges and two clerks
to conduct an election by ballot on the first Monday in May,
for the election of a Mayor and two Town Councilmen. All
elections for town purposes, shall, as nearly as practicable, be
conducted as an election for county officers in Prince George's
County, except as herein provided.

The Mayor shall be elected by the combined vote of the
town, and the Councilmen shall be elected by the votes of
the Wards in which they dwell. The candidate for each office
who shall receive a greater number of votes than any other
candidate for said office shall be declared elected, and in the
event of a tie vote another election shall be held as soon as
practicable to elect one of the candidates so tied.

In all town elections, public notice thereof shall be posted
in not less than five public places at least ten days before the
date of election; the polls shall be open between the hours
of eleven A. M. and eight P. M., and three judges and two
clerks hereinbefore mentioned in this section shall constitute a
Board of Election Supervisors and shall determine the quali-
fications and right of each voter to participate in the town