ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 861

Any candidate at said elections may contest the same and
the Judge of the Circuit Court for Prince George's County
shall have jurisdiction to determine such contest and may
adopt such modes of proceeding and adjudging costs in cases
of contested election as to him may seem most satisfactory.
No such contest shall, however, be considered unless said peti-
tion is filed in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County
within seven days, exclusive of Sunday and legal holidays,
after the public announcement by the Board of Election Super-
visors of the result of the election.

Any person desiring to be a candidate for an elective office
under the terms of this Act shall file, not less than fifteen days
previous to the date of the election, with the Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors herein provided for, a petition setting forth
that said candidate is not less than twenty-five years of age,
a citizen of the United States, that he is an owner of real
property, or is purchasing real property under contract, or
is a member of the immediate family of such an owner or
purchaser, that he has been an actual dweller within the limits
of said town for not less than two years next preceding the
date of election, and setting forth the ward in which said can-
didate dwells and the name of the office he seeks. Said peti-
tion of any candidate for Mayor shall bear not less than twenty
signatures of persons qualified to vote for said candidate and
said petition of any candidate for Councilman shall bear not
less than ten signatures of persons qualified to vote for said
candidate under the provisions of this Act. The Board of
Election Supervisors shall cause to be given general publicity
the names of such eligible candidates with the name of the
offices they seek, and shall post all of such names and offices
conspicuously at the polls.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of
determining whether the citizens of Riverdale Heights desire
to incorporate, there shall be held an election within sixty
days from the date of passage of this Act, the manner and
procedure of which shall be as follows:

The Committee to conduct such election shall consist of:
Alfred J. Bullard, John G. O'Donnell and Frank A. Kauff-
man, as judges of election, and Eva Stewart and Charles Gale
as clerks; and if any of said committee are unable or decline to
serve, the remaining members of said committee are empowered
to select some resident voter of said town to fill his place,