966 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 342

said town a written or printed notice notifying all the resi-
dents of said town who are qualified to vote under this Act
that an election will be held on the date fixed in this Act at
a certain place and between certain hours, which notice shall
contain the said date, the hours that the polls will remain
open and the location of the polling place or places, and a
statement that the election is to be held for the purpose of
deciding whether or not to adopt this charter and form an
incorporated town.

The said committee shall provide and furnish the place or
places where such election shall be held, the booths, ballot
boxes and sufficient number of printed ballots, upon which
on one line the words "For Incorporation, " shall be printed,
and on another line the words "Against Incorporation, " with
squares opposite each.

Said election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable
as an election for county officers is conducted in all points not
specially provided for in this Act, and on the closing of the
polls the said committee shall canvass said votes and publicly
announce the result of said canvass. In the event that a ma-
jority of the votes cast are for incorporation, this Act shall
immediately become effective, and in the event that a major-
ity of said votes are against incorporation, it shall be null and
void.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That in the event
that this charter is adopted by the citizens of said Fairmount
Heights under the provisions of the referendum above set
forth, then the same committee who conducted the referendum
election with the same powers of filling vacancies thereon shall
on the first Tuesday, August, 1929, hold another election for
the five Commissioners provided for herein in the manner
and form prescribed herein for general elections, except that
the said committee shall canvass the votes cast and publicly
announce the result thereof. The five persons having the
largest number of votes shall be declared by said committee
as the first Board of Commissioners for said Town of Fair-
mount Heights, and upon their taking the oath herein pre-
scribed shall become the Board of Commissioners for said
town.

Approved April 11, 1929.