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transmitted to said Court. Said original papers, including the testimony
shall be transmitted to the Court of Appeals within five (5) days from
the taking of the appeal.

19A-11. GENERAL POWERS OF BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
ELECTIONS.

The Board of Supervisors of Elections is hereby authorized and em-
powered to do any and all acts, the carrying out of which is committed
to them by The Town Charter for voting by persons who are absentee
voters, and to accept and expend any funds made available to them by
The Town for the purpose of defraying the costs and expenses incurred
in connection therewith, including their services. The Board of Election
Supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to use any and all
facilities that may be furnished by the Town for the purpose of transmit-
ting to and from absentee voters applications for absentee ballots, envel-
opes, instructions and all other printed matter that may be permitted
to be transmitted by the Town Charter and generally to cooperate in
every way with military and civil officers of the United States and with
all such departments, commissions and agencies thereof in order to en-
able such persons to vote.

19A-12. AUTHORITY TO CHANGE BALLOTS AND MATERIALS TO
CONFORM TO CONGRESSIONAL ACT.

If any act or acts of Congress, now or hereafter in effect, providing
for voting by mail of all or any of the persons who are absentee residents
or voters, as defined in this subtitle, requires the execution of an oath on
the ballot envelope, or otherwise, or requires other printing on any of
said ballot material, which is different from that required on the ballot
envelope or other ballot material as provided in this subtitle, such ballot
if completed in accordance with such act of Congress, whether or not
completed in accordance with this subtitle, shall be accepted as having
complied with the requirements of this subtitle, provided any such change
does not conflict with any provision of the Charter of this Town and shall
not provide or prescribe any oath which would not furnish the informa-
tion needed to enable any board to register the affiant as a qualified voter
under the charter of said Town.

19A-13. PENALTIES.

Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this subtitle
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one
thousand dollars ($1,000), or be sentenced to imprisonment for not more
than two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. These penalties
shall be in addition to the penalties as provided in Section 29 of the charter
of said Town.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of adoption of this
Resolution is                                  , and the amendment to the charter

of the Town of Elkton by the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of
Elkton hereby proposed by this enactment shall become effective fifty
(50) days after final enactment, unless a proper petition for referendum
hereof shall be filed as permitted by law, provided a complete and exact
copy of this Resolution shall be posted in the Town Hall of Elkton for a
period of forty (40) days following enactment of said Resolution, and pro-
vided further, that a copy or fair summary of the proposed amendment
shall be published in the "Cecil Whig" or "Cecil Democrat," a newspaper
of general circulation in the Town of Elkton, once in each of the weeks of