ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                 1073

cretion, to acquire by gift, grant, purchase or condemnation,
any land, with any improvements thereon, either within or with-
out the limits of said city, for parks,, playgrounds or any other
municipal purpose or use, and to enact ordinances regulating
the use thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 418.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 3 and 6 of Chapter 73 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1922, codified as
Sections 431 and 434 of Article 1 of the Public Local Laws
of Allegany County (1930 Edition), and to re-enact said sec-
tions with amendments, changing the dates for municipal
elections and registration of voters in the town of Luke.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 3 and 6 of Chapter 73 of the Acts of 1922,
codified as Sections 431 and 434 of Article 1 of the Public Local
Laws of Allegany County (1930 Edition), be and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

Section 431. The citizens of the town of Luke aforesaid of
the age of twenty-one years and upwards who, being citizens of
the United States, have resided in said town for and during a
period of one year next preceding any municipal election, shall
be qualified to vote at such election in said town; and the quali-
fied voters are hereby authorized on the second Monday of
October, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two and each
two years thereafter, at the usual place as shall be designated
by the Mayor and Commissioners of Luke, to elect one person
who shall have resided within the limits thereof at least two
years next preceding said election and be a qualified voter
therein as Mayor of the town of Luke, and the said Mayor shall
serve for two years and until his successor is elected and quali-
fied. He shall preside at all meetings of the Mayor and Com-
missioners of Luke and shall execute all ordinances passed by
them. In the absence of the Mayor at any meeting of the Mayor
and Commissioners, the Commissioners may appoint a president