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by the judge of said election to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Somerset County immediately after the count and canvass
of the ballots on election day, who shall preserve the same, and
if no petition for re-count, re-canvass, etc., is filed within said
period, said ballots may be destroyed after the expiration of said
period of ten days; any candidate at any of the elections here-
in provided shall have the right, to have a challenger present
during the voting, counting and canvassing of said votes on
election day and such challenger shall be permitted to examine
any ballot in the hands of the said judge of election.

301D. The President and Commissioners of Princess Anne
shall give notice of the time and place of registration and elec-
tion at least five weeks before each election provided in Sec-
tion 301 of this Article, by publication in some newspaper pub-
lished in said town, shall provide a suitable place for holding
such registrations and elections and pay all expenses incident
thereto, and the President and Commissioners may copy the
list of registered voters into a new register at any time, but the
old register shall be preserved and kept available to any person
who may desire to see the same, until after the election next
succeeding the making of such copy.

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

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 446.

AN ACT to repeal and re enact, with amendments, Section
304 of Article 20 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (Edition 1930), title "Somerset County, " sub-
title "Princess Anne, " as said section was amended by Chap-
ter 286 of the Acts of 1900, to extend the corporate limits
of the town of Princess Anne by creating certain defined
annexes with optional rights to the property owners thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 304 of Article 20 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland (Edition 1930), title "Somerset
County, " sub-title "Princess Anne, " as said section was
amended by Chapter 286 of the Acts of 1900, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows: