THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 7

tain conditions for the means of voting by mail at municipal
primary and general elections held hereafter in the City
of Baltimore, by certain residents of the City of Baltimore
absent and engaged in the military or naval service of the
United States, as herein defined; further providing under
certain conditions for the means of registration by said
residents, and for the appointment of the officials and per-
sons necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act;
imposing additional duties as to such voting by mail, upon
the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore City;
providing for the creation of a War Ballot Commission for
Baltimore City, and for the powers and duties of said Com-
mission; authorizing all the boards, commissions and elec-
tion officials herein mentioned to cooperate with agencies
of the United States in the administration of this Act;
making criminal offenses of certain actions in violation of
the provisions of this Act; and providing in general for a
system of absentee voting in the municipial primary and
general elections of Baltimore City.

WHEREAS, the General Assembly of 1945 by the enactment
of Chapters 717 and 799 of 1945 provided for a system of
absentee voting by members of the armed forces of the United
States, in the municipal primary and general elections of
Baltimore City; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly by Chapter 1 of the Acts of
the Special Session of 1944 also made provision for such a
system of absentee voting for State-wide elections, authority
being given in this Act to the Governor of Maryland to declare
it terminated when the conditions of emergency had been
ended; and

WHEREAS, the Governor of Maryland, by a proclamation duly
issued in the month of December, 1946, declared the said Chap-
ter 1 of the Acts of the Special Session of 1944 to be terminated
and abrogated, as if the same had not been enacted; and

WHEREAS, this action with respect to the said Chapter 1 of
the Acts of the Special Session of 1944 made no mention of
the said Chapters 717 and 799 of the Acts of 1945, thus leaving
in doubt whether these two Acts were or were not effective
thereafter as to municipal primary and general elections in
Baltimore City; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly by Chapter 3 of the Acts of
the First Special Session of 1950 re-enacted the system of
absentee voting for members of the armed forces, in State-
wide elections; and