366 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 137

public health and sanitary condition of the town, and for
this purpose he is vested with the same authority as any
health officer of the state, within the corporate limits of
said town.

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 town
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
Cheverly shall have full power and are hereby directed to
provide for the annual registration of new voters and revi-
sion of the registration lists. The mayor and town council
shall have full power by ordinance, not in conflict with the
laws of the State of Maryland to provide for the registra-
tion of voters for the town elections. The mayor and town
council shall have full power to appoint registered voters
of the town as registration officials, who may, at the pleas-
ure of the majority of the mayor and councilmen be re-
moved 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 birthday. In addition to the qualifi-
cations aforesaid, every applicant to register as a voter
shall have his actual residence in the town of Cheverly and
shall have resided within the limits of said town not less
than one year next preceding the date of any regular town
election. Transfers may be granted by the registration offi-
cials 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 and
ward councilman, and for other purposes, shall be by ballot
or voting machines, and shall be held on the first Monday
in May of every year, beginning on the first Monday in
May 1951, except as otherwise provided by law. The mayor
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. At the first election of
officers under this Charter to be held on the first Monday