HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 749

fore the fifteenth day of December preceding any year in
which an election is to be held in said City under the Charter
thereof, appoint two persons of opposite political faith in
each precinct to act as officers of registration, who shall
sit as officers of registration at the usual polling places in
each precinct on the second Tuesday in January in the year
of said election from the hours of 8 A. M. to 8 P. M. and
ten days' public notice of such sitting shall be given by the
City Clerk by advertisement in at least two of the daily
newspapers of said City. The officers of registration shall be
residents of the district or precinct of which they are appointed,
and the said officers of registration shall register in books to
be prepared for the purpose, all citizens above the age of
twenty-one years, who shall have the requisite qualifications to
entitle them to vote for Mayor. Every person who shall have
resided in the State of Maryland and in said Hagerstown for
twelve months, and in the ward or precinct wherein he or she
offers to register six months next preceding the election, shall
be entitled to be registered; in any of said wards or precincts,
and if any such person shall be so registered in any such
ward or precinct, but shall remove therefrom to any otter of
said wards or precincts and remain therein, he or she shall be
entitled to have his or her name remain upon the registry list
of the said ward or precinct from which he or she shall remove^
as aforesaid, and to vote therein until he or she shall reside
in the ward or precinct to which he or she shall have removed
and remain therein a sufficient time to entitle him or her to
register therein. And wherever in the Charter of Hagerstown
or any of the amendments thereto, the word he occurs it shall
be construed as including the word she, or wherever in said
charter or any of the amendments thereto the word masculine
is used, it shall be construed as including the word feminine^

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

Approved May 7, 1943.

CHAPTER 597.
(House Bill 634) \i$

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 154
of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Registration of Motor
Vehicles and Operators", relating to the operation of mo tor;