226 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 105

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 298 of Article 24 of Flack's Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Worcester County, " sub-title "Snow Hill, " as amended
by Chapter 147 of the Acts of 1931 of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

298. On or before the second Tuesday in April, 1920, the
City Council of Snow Hill shall appoint two officers of reg-
istration for the town of Snow Hill who shall on the sec-
ond Thursday in April, 1920, and the following Wednes-
day, after having been duly sworn before the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, to faith-
fully discharge their duties as such registration officers,
attend at the usual place of voting in the Municipal Build-
ing 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 registered by said registration offi-
cers 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 Constitution of
the State of Maryland. The said Registration Officer 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 thereafter 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 days before said election with the Secre-