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of whom shall have been for six months prior thereto, a property owner
in said town or have been purchasing property in said town under contract
of sale, and in addition thereto shall at the said time maintain in said sub-
division a cottage or building for summer recreation.
1929, ch. 397, sec. 4.
385. All persons of said town who have owned property in said town
for six months or who have been purchasing property in said town for six
months under contract of sale, and their husbands or wives shall be quali-
fied to vote for candidates for the elective offices of the said town, and the
judges of election shall pass upon the qualifications and right of any person
to vote in any election. The judges of election shall keep a list of the
names of all persons who vote at any election and the names of any person
who, by them, has been refused the privilege of voting, which list shall
be turned over to the town commissioners within five days after the elec-
tion to which it relates.
1929, ch. 397, sec. 5.
386. The election for town officers, except as hereinafter provided for
the referendum, shall be held on the second Saturday in August bi-annu-
ally after the passage of this Act at a place to be designated by the com-
missioners, at which election the polls shall remain open from two o'clock
P. M. until nine o'clock P. M. The election shall be conducted by three
judges of election, and one clerk, to be appointed by the commissioners of
the said town. At least ten days before any election the said commission-
ers shall insert a notice thereof for two consecutive days in a Negro news-
paper published in the District of Columbia, and shall cause to be posted
in five conspicuous places in said town notice of said election, designating
the place of voting, the hours the polls are open and the names of the judges
and clerk. In the event that any judge or clerk after appointment is unable
or declines to serve, the remaining judges shall name some one to take his
place. Suitable ballot boxes, polling places and printed ballots shall be
provided by the commissioners. Any person desiring to become a candi-
date for any elective office shall at least twenty days before election, file or
cause to be filed, with the commissioners, or clerk thereof, a petition stat-
ing that he or she is a candidate for the office, which petition must be filed
by such person and indorsed by at least fifteen persons entitled to vote
in the next town election. Upon the filing of said petition the commission-
ers shall print such person's name upon the ballot with a square opposite
each, the names on the ballot, there shall appear a statement instructing
the voter as to how many persons to vote for. Immediately upon the clos-
ing of the polls the ballots shall be publicly counted, and the said judges,
two days thereafter, shall make a truthful and correct return to the chair-
man of the said commissioners, and within ten days thereafter the said
commissioners shall meet and declare those qualified persons receiving the
highest number of votes duly elected. In case two or more persons shall
have received the same number of votes so that there is no choice for the
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