496                          LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 190

the qualified voters of said town shall elect a Major to serve a
term of two years, and a councilman for the first ward and a
councilman for the third ward, each to serve a term of two
years, to be voted for by the qualified voters of their respective
wards. Every two years after the second Tuesday in July,
1931, the qualified voters of the Town of Colmar Manor shall
elect a Mayor, and at each successive annual election after the
second Tuesday in July, 1931, the qualified voters of each
ward in which there is a vacancy shall elect a councilman to
serve a term of two- years. All citizens of the United States
of the age of twenty-one years or over who have qualified as
voters of the said town as hereinafter in this charter provided
shall be qualified to vote for the election of officers of the said
town and at all elections provided for under this charter. The
Mayor must continuously reside in said town and each coun-
cilman in his respective ward during their terms of office, and
they shall receive no compensation for their services. The
Mayor elected hereunder shall qualify upon the next Tuesday
succeeding his election by taking an oath before any officer of
the State of Maryland duly authorized to take an affidavit.

All elections for town purposes shall as nearly as practicable
be conducted as are elections for county officers in Prince
George's County, except as herein provided.

244.      The Mayor and Council shall meet in some convenient
place in said town not less than once in every month. The
majority shall form a quorum for the transaction of business;
and upon each action the yea and nay vote of the Mayor and
'each Councilman shall be recorded opposite his name. The
Mayor and Council shall pass rules and regulations consistent
with the provisions of this Act for their own government while
in session. Any Councilman absent from three consecutive
meetings, without excuse, shall constitute a vacancy. All vacan-
cies occurring from a ward shall be filled from said ward by
the Mayor and Council. The Mayor shall preside at the meet-
ings of the Mayor and Council and shall call meetings from
time to time as he may deem necessary, but in case of his
absence from any meeting, the Councilmen present shall elect
one of their members to preside who shall for the time being
have all the authority of the Mayor.

245.     Annually on or before the first Monday in June, the
Mayor and Council shall appoint a Board of Election Super-
visors to consist of two* judges and a clerk, which board shall