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	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the male citizens
	of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who
	have resided in the town of Lonaconing one year
	preceding the election, shall, on the third Monday of
	April in each year, at such place as the judges of
	election herein appointed shall designate within the	Elect Mayor.
	corporate limits of said town for the election to be
	held in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and
	at such place for succeeding elections as the Mayor
	and Councilmen of said town shall designate, elect
	one person residing in said town and having real and
	personal property therein to the value of five hun-
	dred dollars, Mayor of the town of Lonaconing.
	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the persons qual-
	ified as required by the preceding section shall also,
	at the same time and place, elect six persons who shall have resided in said town one year next pre-	Elect Coun- cil men.
	ceding said election, and who shall be assessed on
	the books of said town to a sum not less than one
	hundred dollars, as Councilmen of said town.
	SEC. 5. And fbe it enacted, That James A. Stewart, John O. Hanley and John Mitchell, be and they are
	hereby appointed judges of election to hold the first
	election under this act, and that immediately after
	the passage of this act they shall give at least five
	days' notice of the time at which said election shall
	be held, at which election all persons qualified as
	prescribed in the third and fourth sections of this
	act shall be entitled to vote for one person for
	mayor, and six persons for councilmen of said town ;
	and the said judges of election, before opening the
	polls, shall take an oath before some justice of the	Judges of election.
	peace in said town, to permit every qualified person
	to vote and none other, and a majority of said three
	judges shall have power to do all things under this
	section, in case one of them dies or refuses to act ;
	and the Mayor and Councilmen then elected shall
	immediately qualify and serve until the first Monday
	in May, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, or until
	their successors qualify ; all future mayors and coun-
	cilmen elected according to the preceding sections
	shall qualify by the first Monday in May, and take
	possession of their offices ths first Monday in May
	each year.
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