308 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 181

The said Cottage City Commission, whenever it shall deter-
mine it to be necessary for the public benefit, that any road,
street, avenue or alley should be improved, which is not, by
the provisions of this Act, made a public highway of said
town, it shall take supervision and control of the same, and
such road, street, avenue or alley shall thereupon become a
public highway of the Town of Cottage City.

SEC. 6. And 1)& it further enacted, That all the inhabitants
of the territory annexed to the Town of Cottage City by this
Act shall, in all respects and to all intents and purposes, be
subject to the powers, jurisdiction and authority vested, or to
be vested by law, in the Cottage City Commission, and to all
the ordinances now in force in said town, or which may here-
after be enacted and ordained by it, so far as the same may
be consistent with the provisions of this Act, and the territory
so annexed shall, in all respects be taken and considered as
a part of the municipal corporation of the Town of Cottage
City.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes of
determining whether the residents of the territory hereinabove
described desire the same to be annexed to the Town of Cot-
tage City, there shall be held an election on the fourth Tues-
day in May, 1949, and the Board of Election Supervisors of
the Town of Cottage City is hereby appointed a committee
for the purpose of holding said election.

Not less than seven (7) days before said election, said com-
mittee shall cause a notice thereof to be published once in a
newspaper published in Prince George's County, having a
circulation within the Town of Cottage City and shall post
in at least five (5) public places within the territory pro-
posed by this Act to be annexed to the Town of Cottage City,
a notice of said election. Said advertisement and posters
shall notify the residents of said territory that there will be
held on said day at a place designated therein or at some
convenient place in the Town of Cottage City between the
hours of five o'clock P. M. and, nine o'clock P. M., an election
to determine whether or not said residents desire the territory
described in this Act to be annexed to the Town of Cottage
City. The said committee shall provide a polling place, ballot
boxes, booths and ballots for said election, the costs thereof
to be paid by the Town of Cottage City, which is hereby
authorized to pay the same. The said ballots shall contain
the words "For Annexation to the Town of Cottage City" on
one line and "Against Annexation to the Town of Cottage
City" on another line, with a square opposite each. Said
election shall be conducted, as nearly as practicable, as elec-