150 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 93

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That three new and additional sections be and they are
hereby added to Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Garrett County", sub-title
"Oakland", said new sections to be known as Sections 406A,
406B and 4060 to follow immediately after Section 406 of said
Article and to read as follows:

406A. The Mayor and Town Council of Oakland, in lieu
of any primary election, shall cause to be placed on the offi-
cial ballot of said town the name of any registered voter of
said town who fulfills the qualifications for the office for
which he seeks and who delivers to the Clerk of said town
ten days before the regular municipal election before the hour
of four o'clock P. M., of that day, a petition asking to be
placed thereon, setting forth his name, residence, age, whether
he is a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer of said
town of Oakland and the length of time he has lived in said
town of Oakland and the office which he seeks, after also
paying the required fee for that particular office. The filing
fee for the candidates to the various elective offices shall be as
follows: Mayor $5. 00_? Treasurer, $5. 00, and Councilman
$2. 50.

406B. The official ballot, which only can be cast at the
election, shall be printed and supplied to the judges of elec-
tion by the Mayor and Town Council of Oakland, and shall
contain the names of all the candidates who have properly
qualified and paid the required filing fee, as set out in the pre-
ceding section, for their particular office, arranged alphabeti-
cally under the proper designation of the office for which they
are candidates. At said election no ballots shall be accepted
or counted by the judges of election except the official ballot,
which ballot shall contain a square opposite the name of
each candidate, which may be voted by a cross mark in said
square opposite the name of the candidate voted for, or the
name of the person or persons voted for may be written in the
blank space provided with square opposite in which a cross
mark must be placed to so vote.

406C. The three judges of election and the two clerks to
be appointed under Section 413 of this Article shall keep the
polls open from nine o'clock in the morning until six o'clock
at night and shall conduct the said election in the same
manner in which the judges of election are now directed to
conduct elections for State and county officials, as far as may
be practicable, after making oath before some Justice of the
Peace of Garrett County that they will only permit those to
vote whose names appear upon the registration lists as duly