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County", sub-title "Hyattsville", be, and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

509. On the same day on which the Mayor and Councilmen
are to be elected under this Act, and on each and every first
Monday in May in each and every second year thereafter, one
person, a legal voter in said town, and owner of real estate to
the value of at least one hundred dollars, shall be chosen by
the voters of said town as its Treasurer, to serve for two
years, and until his successor shall qualify, but before said
Treasurer shall enter upon his duties, he shall give bond pay-
able to the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, in such
penalty as the Mayor and Common Council may fix, with
surety to be approved by it, conditioned as it may direct, and
the said Treasurer shall qualify and enter upon the duties of
his office on or before the first Monday in June succeeding his
election, and a failure to qualify within the time herein speci-
fied shall be deemed a refusal to accept the office, whereupon the
Mayor and Common Council shall order a new election to fill
the vacancy. In the event of the death, resignation, inability to
act or removal for cause of the Treasurer by the Mayor and
Common Council, it shall be its duty to appoint another
Treasurer under like conditions as to bond, to serve until the
next succeeding town election, at which his successor shall be
chosen to serve until the expiration of the regular term of
Treasurer or until his successor may be elected and qualified,
provided that the present term of office of the Treasurer shall
be, and the same is hereby extended until the first Monday in
June, 1945, and the first election of Treasurer hereunder shall
be on the first Monday in May, 1945.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 23, 1943.

CHAPTER 206.
(House Bill 311)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 477
of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Prince George's County", sub-title
"Hyattsville", to change the term of office of The Mayor and
Councilmen from two years to four years.