HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1303

by the Mayor and Council under this sub-title, and they
shall continue in office until the fifteenth day of November,
1944, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

33. The said Council of Chesapeake Beach shall at least
ten days prior to the first Monday in November, 1944, and
biennially thereafter give notice of the time and place of
holding an election for Mayor and Councilmen by posting
printed or typewritten notices in five conspicuous places
in the said town, and shall also publish such notice in some
newspaper published in Calvert County, Maryland, and in
one published in Washington, D. C., one insertion, at least
three weeks prior to said election; said judges of election,
hereinbefore provided for, shall before acting as such take
an oath before the Mayor or some justice of the peace of
Calvert County, Maryland, to allow all persons to vote who
are qualified to vote under this act, and to allow none to
vote unless so qualified.

34. The polls shall be kept open from 7 o'clock A. M.
until 7 o'clock P. M. of said election day. The judges shall,
after the closing of the polls, carefully count the ballots
cast, and within two days after the said election make a
true and correct return of the same under their hands to
the Council, and shall issue certificates of election to the
person appearing from said returns to have received the
highest number of votes for Mayor, and the six per-
sons receiving the highest number of votes for Councilmen,
provided that if the Council shall have divided the town
into election districts and shall have apportioned the mem-
bership of the Council among such districts then, in that
event, the person or persons receiving the highest number
of votes in each district shall be entitled to receive certifi-
cates of election with respect to that district. The persons
who shall receive such certificates of election shall be
Mayor and Councilmen, respectively, for the said town for
the two ensuing years or until their successors are duly
elected and qualified. Said certificates of election shall be
recorded among the records of the said town Council, and
a copy thereof shall be forthwith transmitted by the town
clerk to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Calvert County,
and by him be filed and recorded.

35. In case a vote be challenged, the judges of election
shall forthwith hear and pass upon the qualifications of
such persons as an elector under this Act. An appeal may
be taken from the decision of the judges to the Council,
which shall, for the purpose of considering such appeals,
be in session on election day from 4 o'clock P. M. until the
closing of the polls.