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ords shall be public and open to inspection at reasonable
hours of the day to any citizen of Rock Hall. In case of re-
moval for cause of any officer, the councilmen may appoint
a successor to act during the pleasure of the councilmen,
or until the next regular election and qualification of such
officer. All moneys in the hands of the treasurer shall be
applied to the payment of orders drawn by the president
in the order in which they are drawn, if seasonably pre-
sented by the legal holders thereof for payment, but the
corporate orders, duly executed, shall be receivable for cor-
poration taxes, payable by the legal holders thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
not become effective until it shall have been submitted,
for adoption or rejection, to the qualified voters of the town
of Rock Hall at the regular municipal election in May, 1935.
There shall be printed on the official ballots to be used at
said election, the title of this Act and underneath said title
on separate lines, a square or box to the right of and oppo-
site the words "For Charter Amendment" and a corre-
sponding square or box to the right of and opposite the
words "Against Charter Amendment, " so that the voters
shall be able to designate by a cross mark in the proper
square or box his or her decision for or against said Charter
Amendment. If a majority of the votes cast on said ques-
tion shall be "For Charter Amendment, " then this Act shall
become immediately effective and the Councilmen elected
at said election shall serve for the terms provided for by
this Act; but if a majority of the votes cast thereon shall
be "Against Charter Amendment, " then this Act shall be
null and void and of no effect whatsoever, and the Council-
men elected at said election shall serve as such Councilmen
and for such terms as if this Act had not been passed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety, and having been passed upon by a yea and nay
vote, supported by three-fifths of all of the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved May 17, 1935.