ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  541

SEC. 2* And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and being
passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date
of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 199,

AN ACT to repeal Section 8 of Chapter 200 of the Acts of
Assembly of Maryland of 1916, the same being a part of the
Charter of the Mayor and Common Council of Mount
Rainier, and to re-enact the same, with an amendment. The
said amendment omitting the word "male" so that females
may become qualified voters of the Town of Mount Rainier,
Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 8 of Chapter 200 of the Acts of As-
sembly of Maryland of 1916, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with an amendment, so as to read as
follows:

8. That all citizens of the United States of the age of
twenty-one years and over who shall have actually resided
within the limits of said town not less than 365 days next pre-
ceding any regular election for Councilmen, who have never
been convicted of any infamous crime, shall be qualified voters
of said town, and as such shall be entitled to register as herein-
after provided, and after such registration to vote at any elec-
tion held in said town under the provisions of this Act, or
under the provisions of any other Act requiring an election to
be held in said town for any town purposes whatsoever, until
they shall be thereafter disqualified by loss of citizenship, actual
removal from said town or conviction for an infamous crime,
and shall for such disqualification be stricken from the regis-
tration books hereinafter provided for.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
-declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-