On the first Monday in May in the year 1917 and on the same day in each year thereafter, an election shall be held in the said Village of Drummond for the election of three (3) committeemen, each of whom shall have been a resident of said Village of Drummond for six (6) months previous to said election, and over the age of twenty-one (21) years, the three (3) said committeemen to be and constitute the Drummond Citizens' Committee for the ensuing year, each of whom shall qualify within twenty (20) days after said election by taking the oath prescribed by the Constitution of Maryland, before an officer of the law duly commissioned to administer same. The annual election of said committeemen, as herein provided shall be held under and in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland, but the returns thereof shall be made to the county council of Montgomery County; all residents of said Village of Drummond for six (6) months previous to said election, and over the age of twenty-one (21) years, shall be eligible to vote at such elections; said elections shall be conducted by three (3) judges of election and two (2) clerks, to be appointed by said committee, who shall serve without pay; and the polls of said election shall be open from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the first Monday in May as hereinbefore provided. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 65-5; 1916, ch. 22, § 4.)