JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

town of Midland at an election to be held for that purpose, of
which at least ten days' notice shall be given by hand bills
conspicuously posted, in at least twenty-five different places
within the aforesaid corporae limits, and also by publica-
tion in some newspaper published in said town (if there be
an\' newspaper published therein), when if it shall appear
that a majority of the legal and qualified voters voting at said
election are in favor of extending the limits of the said town
of Midland, so as to take into the corporate bounds thereof
the land or lands as petitioned for, then the said Commission-
ers of Midland shall cause a survey aud plat of said lands,
lots, streets and alleys to be made, and shall have the same
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Allegany County as an addition to the corporate limits of
said town, and the said lands, lots, streets and alleys aud the
inhabitants thereof, so embraced within the corporate limits
of said town, shall be subject to all the laws and ordinances
governing said town.

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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the citizens of said town
having the qualifications prescribed for voters by the laws of
this State, and having resided in said town for six months
previous to any election, shall on the first Monday in June in
the year 1900, and annually thereafter on the first Monday in
June, at such place as shall be designated by the judges of
election, between the hours of one o'clock P.M. and seven
o'clock P.M., elect by ballot five persons who are qualified
voters of said town and residents therein to be Commissioners
of said town, to serve without compensation for one year from
the date of their election, and until their successors are elected
and qualified; and three of said Commissioners shall constitute
a quorum for the transaction of business, and that all elections
shall be held and conducted in all respects as shall from time
to time be directed by the by-laws and ordinances of the cor-
poration, not inconsistent with this charter.

Annual
election for
Commission'rs
of said town.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That if at any election for Com-
missioners it shall appear that any two or more persons voted
for as Commissioners have received the same number of
votes, so that there is no choice for an entire board, but a
vacancy in one or more seats, the old Board of Commissioners
shall immediately proclaim a new election to fill such vacancy
or vacancies, and the members of the old Board of Commis-
sioners shall hold their office until an entire board is elected,
and none of the newly-elected Commissioners shall qualify
until the entire board is elected.

Old board
shall hold
over until
election of
entire board.