272 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 314

nominated as hereinbefore provided which may be certified
to said Mayor as aforesaid.

(d) All of the candidates from a given community
aforesaid shall be grouped on such ballot under a
headline indicating that they are candidates from that
particular community, and that the voter may vote for
any one of said group, that the voters who participate in
said election may vote for one candidate in each group
and not otherwise; and the candidate from each community
who shall receive the highest number of votes cast shall
be certified by said election board in writing, in triplicate,
to said Mayor, and said candidates shall be declared to be
and shall be members of said Board of Directors for a
period of four years and until such time as their succes-
sors are duly elected and qualified.

(e) All candidates at large aforesaid shall be grouped
on said ballot under a head line indicating that
they are candidates at large and that the voter may vote
for any three of said group; that the voters who partici-
pate in the said election may vote for not more than three
of said candidates in said group and not otherwise; that
the three candidates of said group who shall receive the
highest number of votes cast shall be certified by said
election board in writing to said Mayor, and said candidate
shall be declared to be and shall be also members of said
Board of Directors for a period of four years and until
such time as their successors are elected and qualified.

(f) Each community that hereinafter arises in the said
area, other than those provided for shall have a mem-
ber on said Board of Directors, after its candidates have
met the same qualifications as those that have been already
admitted by the other communities; provided further, how-
ever, that the president of said corporation, or one of the
vice-presidents, shall perform all duties herein devolved
upon the said Mayor of Glen Echo, subsequent to the first
election, aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed upon a yea and nay vote supported by
three-fifths of all members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 24, 1945.