JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

ceding the election, and also all untaxed male inhabitants of
said town possessing the qualifications of age and residence
above set forth whose wives are assessed as aforesaid, and no
others, shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday of April, in
the year 1900, and every two years thereafter, three male resi-
dents of said town and holding real estate in said town
above the value of three hundred dollars, as Town Commis-

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sioners thereof. And at any time before such election is held
the Town Commissioners then in office shall appoint some
justice of the peace of Queen Anne's County residing in said
town a judge of election, who shall appoint a clerk to take
down the votes cast at said election; and the clerk aforesaid
before he proceeds to act as such shall take an oath before
said justice of the peace that he will truly, faithfully and
impartially take down the names of all such persons as shall
be permitted by the said judge to vote at said election. And
said judge of election shall have possession and custody of
the tax book of said town while any election as aforesaid is
being held for the purpose of ascertaining and determining
the persons entitled to vote at said election. The polls for
the election aforesaid shall be opened at the court house in
said town at the hour of 9 o'clock A.M., and shall be closed
at 6 o'clock P.M. No vote shall be taken before or after said
hours respectively. And after the polls are closed the said
judge shall proceed forthwith, in the presence of such persons
as may attend, to count the ballots, and shall ascertain and
publicly declare the three persons having the highest number
of votes duly elected Town Commissioners of Centreville for
the ensuing two years and until their successors have quali-
fied; and the said justice of the peace shall receive for acting
as judge of election the sum of five dollars,' and the said
clerk shall receive the sum of three dollars, to be paid by said
town.

Election.

44. If any of said Town Commissioners so elected shall
refuse or neglect to qualify, or die, or remove out of said
town, or become otherwise disqualified, his place shall be
filled for the residue of the term by the selection of some one
possessing the qualifications for Town Commissioner aforesaid
by the remaining Town Commissioners, who shall qualify by
taking the oath aforesaid before some justice of the peace of
said county residing in said town, a certificate of which oath
shall be duly filed and recorded among the minutes of said
Town Commissioners.

45. Within ten days after their election, as provided in
Section forty-three, each of said Town Commissioners shall

May fill
vacancies.