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results thereof, and file their returns with the Town Clerk as
soon as practicable after he or she has been appointed and
qualified. The candidates for Mayor and Treasurer receiving
the largest number of votes in the town respectively, and the
candidate for Councilman from each ward receiving the
largest number of votes from that particular ward for the
term for which he was nominated, whether one or two year
term, shall be declared by said Committee to be duly elected
to the respective offices, and upon their taking the oath of
office they shall become the Mayor and Town Council for said
town. In case this Act should not be approved by the Gov-
ernor before the second Wednesday in April, 1949, the said
Committee shall change the dates fixed in this and the pre-
ceding section to approximately one month later, on which
changed dates they shall perform the enumerated duties.
Should the Governor approve this bill on or before the third
Wednesday in March, said Committee may, in their discretion,
hold the above election at correspondingly earlier dates as
may seem to, them appropriate.

In case of a tie the remaining members of the Mayor and
Town Council shall order a new election for that particular
office as in this Act provided for.

The Mayor and Town Council may make their first tax levy
of not to exceed fifty cents on each $100. 00 of assessed valua-
tion, on or before June 25, in the first year of incorporation,
for the partial tax year ending December 31, in the first year
of incorporation, which taxes shall be due on July 1, in the
first year of incorporation, and shall become delinquent and
bear interest at the same time as provided for town taxes
generally in this Act.

SEC. 34. That should any section, sections, or part or parts
of a section of this Act be held invalid for any reason what-
ever, such holding shall not be construed as affecting the
validity of any remaining section or part of a section of this
Act, it being the legislative intent that the remainder of this
Act shall stand and would have been passed notwithstanding
such invalidity or elimination of any portion or portions
hereof.

SEC. 35. That this Act is hereby declared to be an emer-
gency law^ and necessary for the immediate preservation of
the public health and safety, and being passed by a yea and
nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1949.