870 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 398

there shall be an election held in the City of Cambridge for
the purpose of choosing Commissioners, as hereinafter pro-
vided, and once in each year, if the Commissioners so de-
sire, they may take the sense of the qualified voters, as to
the passage of any ordinance or ordinances which they con-
template passing. In the year 1912 there shall be selected
by the qualified voters of each of wards Nos. 1, 4 and 5 a
Commissioner who shall hold office for a term of four
years, or until his successor is duly elected and qualified
and there shall be elected by the qualified voters of each
of wards Nos. 2 and 3 a Commissioner to hold office for a
term of two years, or until his successor is duly elected and
qualified, and on the second Wednesday of July, in the year
1914, and on the second Wednesday of July in each and
every fourth year thereafter there shall be elected by the
qualified voters of each of wards Nos. 2 and 3 a Commis-
sioner who shall hold office for a term of four years or
until his successor is duly elected and qualified and there
shall be elected on the second Wednesday of July, in the
year 1916, and on the second Wednesday of July, in each
and every fourth year thereafter, by the qualified voters of
each of wards Nos. 1, 4 and 5 a Commissioner who shall
hold office for a term of four years or until his successor
is duly elected and qualified. The Commissioners shall pro-
vide the official ballots for such election or elections, the
form and arrangement of such ballot to be as they shall be
by order prescribed except that all candidates for the same
office shall be grouped together and the names shall be ar-
ranged alphabetically on said ballot. The Commissioners
shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, at each polling place
on the day of said election to the judges of election before
the opening hour, the said registries of voters and a suffi-
cient number of the said official ballots, not less, however,
than twice the number of registered voters at each polling
place or ward, and one of such ballots shall be handed by
the judges of election to the voters as they shall apply for
them for the purpose of voting and shall be accepted by the
judges or counted in canvassing the vote provided that
nothing herein shall be deemed to prevent candidates for
the various offices to have sample ballots, to be provided for
at their own expense, for instructing the voters. After each
name on said ballot and to the right thereof, shall be a
square upon which the voter shall make a cross-mark to
indicate the candidate of his choice. If any voter cannot
read or write, or is disabled by reason of any physical in-
firmity, he may ask one of the judges of election to mark
his ballot as he desires, When a voter offers to vote the