and they are hereby constituted and made a body
corporate by the name of Sassafras, with all the
privileges of a body corporate, and to have a com-
mon seal and perpetual succession, and that the
following sections be also enacted :

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the free white
male citizens of the Head of Sassafras aforesaid,
of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, be-
ing citizens of the United States, who have resided
in the said village for or during the space of six
months next preceding the first Wednesday in
April next, may on that day, at the hotel of James
L. Pryor, in said village, in the house formerly
Voshell's Hotel, and the free white male citizens
of the town of Sassafras aforesaid, having the
qualification aforesaid, on the first Wednesday in
April in every year thereafter, be authorized to
elect five Commissioners for said town, who shall
be entitled to vote, and have resided within the
limits of the same one year next preceding the
election.

Commission-
ers to be elect-
ed.

Sec, 3. And be it enacted, That any Justice of
the Peace residing in the First Election District
in Kent county shall appoint by writing under
his hand one Judge to hold the first election, who
shall keep the polls open from nine o'clock in the
morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, that
the voting shall be by ballot, and the said
Judge shall make return under his hand to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent county to be
recorded and retained by him.

Authority to
appoint Judge
of Election.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all future elec-
tions shall be held and conducted as shall be from
time to time directed by the laws of the corpora-
tion, the same not being inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act and the laws of the State.

Future elec-
tions.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
missioners to be elected according to the provi-
sions of this Act shall, at the first or second meet-
ing after said election, choose some one of the
said Commissioners President of the Board, whose
duty it shall be to preside at the meetings of the
said Commissioners and preserve order and give
such directions as may be deemed necessary by the
said Commissioners to carry into effect the provi-
sions of ting Act.

President to
be chosen.