86 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 35

Pocomoke City shall each continue in office and serve out
in full the respective term for which they were elected under
the previous charter of the town and until their successors
and the successor of each of them shall be duly elected or
appointed and qualified under the provisions of this Act.

199.

(j) The registered voters shall, on the first Tuesday in April,
nineteen hundred and forty, and on the same day every second
year thereafter, elect by ballot one person to be Mayor of
Pocomoke City, and also on the first Tuesday in April, nine-
teen hundred and [thirty-nine, elect by ballot one person to
be Councilman of said Town, ] fifty-one, elect by ballot three
persons to be Councilmen of said town, one of whom shall be
elected for a term of one year, one for a term of two years
and one for a term of three years, and on the same day in
every year thereafter, the said registered voters shall elect
by ballot [one person to be Councilman] a person or persons,
as the case may be, to succeed the Councilman or Councilmen,
as the case may be, whose term of office is then about to expire,
and at any such election, vote on any questions submitted
to them under the provisions of law, and elect, as hereinafter
provided, a person or persons, as the case may be, to fill any
office or offices vacated by resignation, death, removal or other-
wise. Providing that nothing in this Act shall in any way affect
the term, powers or duties of the present Mayor and the
present members of the Council.

202. The Mayor-elect and also each Councilman-elect shall
without delay appear before the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Worcester County, Maryland, and make the oath or
affirmation and declaration prescribed by the Constitution
and having secured from said Clerk a certificate of his or
her said declaration and oath, shall return the same to the
town clerk to be recorded among the proceedings of the Mayor
and Council. And if any such person so elected Mayor or
Councilman shall fail to qualify as above required on or
before the first Monday in May next succeeding his or her
election, the office to which he or she was elected shall be
declared vacant and the vacancy shall be filled in the manner
hereinafter provided for the filling of a vacancy in said office.
If any vacancy shall happen in the office of Councilman by
reason of resignation, death, removing from office, change of
residence, failure to qualify or otherwise, the remaining Coun-
cilmen shall appoint some person having the qualifications
required for Councilman of Pocomoke City to fill the vacancy
until the next annual election of town officials, at such election,
the qualified voters shall elect a person to fill such unexpired