ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  299

able to read and write any section of the Constitution of the
State of Maryland. The said Registration Officers 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 Mon-
day in May, 1921, and every second year thereafter, two per-
sons 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 Secretary of
the Mayor and Council, a certificate in writing containing the
name and address of the person seeking office, and the office to
which he seeks to be elected, such certificate to be duly acknowl-
edged by the person filing the same before an officer duly au-
thorized under the General Laws of the State of Maryland to
take acknowledgments, who shall append thereto at certificate
of such acknowledgment, and no votes cast for any person fail-
ing to file such certificate shall be counted in such election;
and on or before the second Tuesday in April, 1921, and an-
nually thereafter the City Council of Snow Hill then in office
shall appoint two officers of registration for said town of Snow
Hill who shall on the second Thursday of April, 1921, and the
following Wednesday and on the same days annually there-
after, after having been duly sworn before the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland, to faithfully dis-
charge their duties as such registration officers,, attend at the
usual place of voting in the Municipal Building in the town of
Snow Hill for the purpose of revising said registration list;
the first day of such annual sitting beginning with the year
1921, shall be devoted to adding new names to said list and to
making up a list of persons then on said list but who may be
suspected of having become disqualified as voters in Snow Hill.
At the close of the sitting on said first day beginning with the
year 1921, the said registration officers shall make a list of the