HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 117

CHAPTER 68.
(Senate Bill 167)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
445 of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Talbot County", sub-
title "St. Michaels", as said section was amended by
Chapter 78 of the Acts of 1935, relating to the number,
qualifications and election of the commissioners for the
Town of St. Michaels.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 445 of Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Tal-
bot County", sub-title "St. Michaels", as said section was
amended by Chapter 78 of the Acts of 1935, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read
as follows:

445. The Commissioners shall be three in number;
and every citizen of said town of St. Michaels, who
has resided, in said town six months next preceding the
election and whose name shall appear upon the list of
registered voters of the town, as hereinafter provided,
and who pays taxes in said town on an assessment of
personal property or real estate, shall be entitled to vote
at all elections hereafter to be held, but no person who
has been convicted of larceny or other infamous crimes,
unless pardoned by the Governor, and no person under
guardianship as a lunatic or as a person non compos
mentis shall be entitled to vote; only persons above the
age of twenty-one years who have resided in said town
for more than one year immediately preceding said elec-
tion, who are duly registered voters therein, and who
pay taxes in said town on an assessment on real estate
in their own names, respectively of not less than five
hundred dollars ($500. 00), shall be eligible for election
as Commissioner. All elections for Commissioner shall be
held on the first Monday in April of each year between
the hours of one and six o'clock P. M. The qualified voters
shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in April, 1939,
as Commissioner one person to serve for the term of
three years from said date and the qualified voters shall
elect by ballot on the first Monday in April, 1940, as Com-
missioner one person to serve for the term of three years
from said date and the qualified voters shall elect by ballot
on the first Monday in April, 1940, as Commissioner one
person to serve for a term of one year from said date and