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1398 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 494
AND THE SAID ATTORNEY SHALL TO THE BEST OF
THEIR ABILITY ANSWER ANY AND ALL QUESTIONS
AS TO THE MEANING AND POSSIBLE WORKINGS OF
THIS ACT.
(F) Said Board of Election Supervisors shall provide booths,
ballot boxes and ballots. The ballots, which shall be printed,
shall contain the words "For Approval of the Creation of a
Special Taxing District" on one line, with a blank square
opposite at the right on the same line, and the words "Against
Approval of the Creation of a Special Taxing District" on
another line, with a blank square opposite at the right of line;
and all qualified voters desiring to vote for the adoption of
this Charter place a cross mark (X) in the square opposite
the words "For Approval of the Creation of a Special Taxing
District", and all qualified voters desiring to vote against the
adoption of this Charter shall place a cross mark (X) in the
square opposite the words "Against Approval of the Creation
of a Special Taxing District".
(G) Every citizen of the United States who shall have
attained the age of twenty-one (21) years, who is the owner of
real property therein, A QUALIFIED VOTER FOR COUN-
TY AND STATE ELECTIONS, and who has resided within
the limits of the proposed village for a period of six months
shall be eligible to vote at such election upon taking and sub-
scribing, before a member of the Board of Election Supervisors
(each of which said members of said Board are hereby author-
ized to administer oaths for this purpose), an oath as follows:
"I,.................. do hereby solemnly swear that I am a
citizen of the United States, and that I have been a resident
of the proposed Bowling Green Special Taxing Area, Mary-
land, for a period of six months.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this........... day of
................... 19......
Member of Board of Election Supervisors"
No person who shall fail or refuse to take and subscribe such
oath shall be eligible to vote at such election, and any person
who swears to anything that is false, in taking and subscribing
such oath, shall be guilty of the crime of perjury and subject
to the penalties provided by the law of the State of Maryland.
(H) For the convenience of the residents of said Village,
and for the convenience of said Board of Election Supervisors,
such Board may permit such oath (referred to in Paragraph G
of this section), to be taken and subscribed prior to the day
of such election. But no person shall be required to take
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