1470 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 663

(21) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER ON DATE OF THE
ELECTION RESIDING IN THE SECTION IN WHICH
REFERENDUM IS AUTHORIZED, SHALL BE ELIGIBLE
TO VOTE ON THE QUESTION "FOR ANNEXATION",
OR "AGAINST ANNEXATION", AND FOR THIS PUR-
POSE LEO J. HABER, GEORGE W. KNOLL, AND
MEREDITH W. MILLER WILL HELP APPOINT A COM-
MITTEE FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING SAID ELEC-
TION, WHICH SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORD-
DANCE WITH THE ELECTION LAWS OF THE STATE
OF MARYLAND AS FAR AS APPLICABLE. IN THE
EVENT ANY OF THE SAID COMMITTEE SHALL DIE
OR BECOME INCAPACITATED FOR ACTIVE SERV-
ICES FROM ANY CAUSE, OR REFUSE TO ACT, THE
ELECTION SHALL BE HELD BY THE REMAINING
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, WHO SHALL PUB-
LICLY ANNOUNCE THE RESULT AND CERTIFY IT
WITH THE BALLOTS TO THE MAYOR AND COMMON
COUNCIL OF RIVERDALE. THE MARYLAND COM-
MON COUNCIL OF RIVERDALE SHALL PAY THE
COST OF THE ELECTION.

IF A MAJORITY OF VOTES CAST IN THAT PORTION
OF THE TERRITORY IN WHICH THE REFERENDUM
IS AUTHORIZED SHALL BE "FOR ANNEXATION",
THEN THE ENTIRE TERRITORY DESCRIBED IN THIS
ACT SHALL, AS OF JANUARY 1, 1954, BE ANNEXED
TO AND BECOME A PART OF THE TOWN OF RIVER-
DALE, SUBJECT TO ALL LAWS AND ORDINANCES
APPLICABLE TO THE MUNICIPALITY. SHOULD A
MAJORITY OF VOTES CAST IN THAT PORTION OF
THE TERRITORY IN WHICH THE REFERENDUM IS
AUTHORIZED BE "AGAINST ANNEXATION, " THEN
THAT PORTION OF THE AREA WHERE SUCH VOTE
IS AUTHORIZED SHALL NOT BE ANNEXED TO AND
BECAME A PART OF THE TOWN OF RIVERDALE, BUT
AS TO SUCH TERRITORY THIS ACT SHALL BE NULL
AND VOID; BUT THE REFERENDUM UPON ANNEXA-
TION SHALL NOT APPLY TO THAT PORTION OF THE
TERRITORY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY DE-
FINED BY THIS ACT AND DESCRIBED AS PARCELS
ONE AND TWO IN THE DEED FROM HENRY A. BER-
LINER AND JOSEPHINE M. BERLINER, HIS WIFE, TO
ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CORPORATION BY A
DEED DATED MARCH 14, 1947, AND DULY RECORDED
IN THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE GEORGE'S
COUNTY IN LIBER 893, FOLIO 28, WHICH PARCELS