132 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 105

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 524 of Article 7 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Carroll County", sub-title
"Westminster", as amended by Chapter 453 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session,
1939, and Section 524B of Article 7 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

524. The government of the city shall be vested in and
enforced by a Mayor and Common Council of five members
who shall be elected by the inhabitants of the city qualified
to vote for delegates to the General Assembly who have
actually resided within the corporate limits of the City of
Westminster not less than six months preceding a municipal
election of said city, and whose names shall appear upon the
books of registered voters as hereinafter provided. The Mayor
shall be at least twenty-five years of age, and a payer of taxes
on the assessed value of at least one thousand dollars' worth
of property subject to municipal taxation; the members of the
Common Council shall be at least twenty-one years of age
and payers of taxes upon the assessed value of at least five
hundred dollars' worth of property subject to municipal taxa-
tion; and the Mayor shall have resided at least two years and
the members of the Council at least one year within said
City. At the election to be held on the first Monday of May,
1910, the Mayor and the two members of the Council receiving
the highest number of votes shall hold office for the period
of two years; the three other members of the Council holding
for only one year; and if at this election there should be a tie
between more than two candidates with the highest number of
votes, the ones to hold office for two years; shall be publicly
determined by lot, after due notice to the parties interested
by the judges of the election. At the election to be held in
May, 1911, there shall be three members of the Council elected
for a period of two years, and at the election in the year
1912, the Mayor, with two members of the Council, shall be
elected for two years, and so alternately from year to year
thereafter; said elections shall be held annually on the
second Monday of May at such place as shall be designated
by the Mayor between the hours of seven o'clock, A. M.
and seven o'clock in the evening. The Mayor shall give
at least two weeks' notice of the election in the newspapers
published in Westminster and by such other means as he may
elect, and shall appoint three judges of election. The said
judges shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall keep a
record of the persons voting and the persons voted for; and
the persons having the highest number of votes for the several