876 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 356

199. The roads, streets, avenues, boulevards, alleys or parks,
which now are or shall hereafter be shown on any plat or
addition to the platted part of said Town, as public highways
or parks, and accepted by the Mayor and To^n Council as
such, are hereby made and declared to be public streets,
avenues, boulevards, alleys or parks of said Town, and shall
be, from time to time, improved and repaired as the public
interest may require and the resources of the Town justify.

ELECTIONS

200. For the purpose of conducting municipal elections in
the Town of Cheverly the Mayor and Town Council of Chev-
erly shall have full power and are hereby directed to provide
for the biennial registration of new voters and revision of
the registration lists in the years between general registra-
tions. The Mayor and Town Council shall have full power,
by ordinance, not in conflict with the laws of the State of
Maryland, to provide a reasonable system of registration of
voters for the Town elections. The Mayor and Town Council
shall have full power to appoint two registered voters of the
Town as registration officials, who may, at the pleasure of the
majority of the Mayor and Councilmen be removed from office
and successors appointed. No person shall be entitled to
register as a voter unless at the time of application so to do
the applicant shall have reached his or her twenty-first birth-
day. In addition to the qualifications aforesaid, every appli-
cant to register as a voter shall have had his actual residence
in the Town of Cheverly and shall have resided within the
limits of said Town not less than one year preceding the date
of any regular Town election. Transfers may be granted by
the registration officials from one ward to another in said
Town. No person shall be entitled to register on election day.

201. (a) All elections to fill the office of Mayor, Council-
man at large and ward councilmen, and for other purposes,
shall be by ballot and shall be held on the first Monday in
May of every second year, beginning on the first Monday in
May, 1949, except as otherwise provided by law. The Mayor
and the Councilman at large shall be elected by the combined
vote of the electorate of said Town; the ward councilmen
shall be elected by the voters within their respective wards.
That at the first election of officers under this Charter to
be held 011 the first Monday in May, 1949, for the election of a
Mayor for a term of four years, a councilman at large for
a term of two years and thereafter shall be elected for a
term of four years, and three councilmen for a term of four
years. The remaining two councilmen and the councilman at