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Session Laws, 1939
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HERBERT B. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1255

(B) Louis Manarin, Angelo Marietta, and W. J. Tierney,
Sr., are hereby appointed to be and constitute a Board of
Election Supervisors for the purpose of conducting such elec-
tion and declaring the result thereof.

(C) That within ten (10) days, (including Sundays and
holidays), after this Act is approved, the persons named in
Paragraph B of this section shall take oath before a Justice
of the Peace, or other officer or person, (including a Notary
Public), authorized by law to administer oaths in Prince
George's County, that they will faithfully and impartially
conduct such election.

(D) That if any of the persons named in Paragraph B of
this section shall die or fail to qualify, such election shall be
conducted by the remaining person or persons named in Para-
graph B of this section who may fill any vacancy in the mem-
bership of the Board of Election Supervisors by appointing
some other resident or residents of said town to any such
vacancy or vacancies. Any such appointment shall be evi-
denced by a writing, and any person so appointed shall, with-
in three (3) days of his said appointment, qualify by taking
the oath referred to in Paragraph C of this section.

(E) That not less than ten (10) days, (including Sundays
and holidays), before such election, said Board of Election
Supervisors appointed by this section, or their successors,
shall post in five (5) public places, within the limits of said
town, a notice notifying the residents of said town that there
shall be held, on the day and between the hours named in
Paragraph A of this section an election to determine whether
or not said residents of said town desire to incorporate and
adopt this Charter. Said notice shall also specify the place
where such election shall be conducted. Said Board of Elec-
tion Supervisors may select any place or places within the
limits of said town.

(F) That said Board of Election Supervisors shall provide
booths, ballot boxes and ballots. The ballots, which shall be
printed, shall contain the words "For Incorporation" on one
line, with a blank square opposite at the right on the same
line, and the words "Against Incorporation" on another
line, with a blank square opposite at the right of line; and
all qualified voters desiring to vote for incorporation and the
adoption of this Charter shall place a cross mark (X) in the
square opposite the words "For Incorporation" and all quali-
fied voters desiring to vote against incorporation and against
adoption of this Charter shall place a cross mark (X) in the
square opposite the words "Against Incorporation. "

(G) That every citizen of the United States who shall have
attained the age of twenty-one (21) years, and who resides


 

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