1832

CECIL COUNTY.

county commissioners by virtue of this act, the voters of (he
second district shall elect two persons residents of the second
district, and the voters of the other three districts, shall elect
each one person as aforesaid, to be county commissioners as
aforesaid ; at the third election for county commissioners by
virtue of this act, the voters of the third district shall elect two
persons residents of the third district, the voters of the other
three districts shall elect each one person as aforesaid to be
county commissioners as aforesaid ; and at the fourth election
for county commissioners by virtue of this act, the voters of the
fourth district, shall elect two persons residents of the fourth
district, and the voters of the other three districts shall elect
each one person as aforesaid to be county commissioners ; and
so on, giving the two commissioners to the districts alternately
as aforesaid, at all future elections for county commissioners ;

Returns.

and the judges of election for each district in said county or a
majority of them, shall certify under their hand and return in a
form and manner similar to their certificates and return of the
election of delegates aforesaid, the number of votes given in each
of the aforesaid districts separately, for a commissioner or com-
missioners, as the case may be, and the judges from the several
election districts in said county, when met at the court-house
of said county, to ascertain and certify the election of delegates
as aforesaid, shall ascertain the number of votes given for com-
missioners as aforesaid in each election district separately as
aforesaid, and by a certificate to be filed in the office of the
clerk of the county court of said county, and which shall be by

Recorded.

the said clerk recorded, certify in a form similar to the certifi-
cate of the election of delegates, that the five persons by name,
residents respectively of the election districts as aforesaid in
said county, who they shall ascertain, received the greatest
number of votes in the separate districts in which he or they
shall reside as aforesaid, are duly elected commissioners for
Cecil county, to serve for the period of two years from the
date of their said election, and that the persons elected as com-
missioners aforesaid, shall out of their own body elect their

Choose a
president.

Case of
vacancy.

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president ; and if any commissioner or commissioners so elected,
shall die, resign, refuse or neglect for twenty days to qualify
as commissioner under this act, or shall remove from the said
county at any time within the period for which he shall have
been elected, the governor and council shall appoint a person
qualified as is herein before provided, in case of an original
election, to fill his place, until the next annual election for
delegates to the general assembly, when a person shall be
elected in the manner provided for in the preceding part of this
section, out of the district where such commissioner or com-