1730 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 749

Nothing herein, or elsewhere in this Act, shall affect the
power of the Mayor and City Council of Hyattsville to
amend or repeal any ordinances existing at the date of the
passage of this Act, or to enact and ordain any ordinance
which, at the date of the passage of this Act, or hereafter,
it may be authorized to enact and ordain.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the inhabi-
tants of the territory annexed to the City of Hyattsville by
this Act, shall, in all respects and to all intents and pur-
poses, be subject to the powers, jurisdiction and authority
vested, or to be vested by law, in the Mayor and City
Council of Hyattsville, and to all the ordinances now in
force in said City, or which may hereafter be enacted and
ordained by it, so far as the same may be consistent with
the provisions of this Act, and the territory so annexed
shall, in all respects be taken and considered as a part of
the municipal corporation of the City of Hyattsville.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes
of determining whether the residents of the territory here-
inabove described desire the same to be annexed to the City
of Hyattsville, there shall be held an election on a date be-
fore June 30, 1953, to be fixed by said Mayor and City
Council, and said Mayor and City Council are hereby ap-
pointed a committee for the purpose of conducting said
election.

Not less than seven (7) days before said election, said
Mayor and City Council shall cause a notice thereof to be
published once in a newspaper circulated in the City of
Hyattsville and shall post in at least three (3) public places
within the territory proposed by this Act to be annexed to
the City of Hyattsville, a notice of said election. Said ad-
vertisement and posted notices shall notify the residents
of said territory that there will be held on said day at a
place designated therein or at some convenient place in
the City of Hyattsville between the hours of five o'clock
P. M., and nine o'clock P. M., an election to determine
whether or not said residents desire the territory described
in this Act to be annexed to the City of Hyattsville. The
said Mayor and City Council shall provide a polling place,
ballot boxes, booths and ballots for said election, the costs
thereof to be paid by the City of Hyattsville, which is
hereby authorized to pay the same. The said ballots shall
contain the words "For Annexation to the City of Hyatts-
ville" on one line and "Against Annexation to the City of
Hyattsville" on another line, with a square opposite each.