1870

DORCHESTER COUNTY.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
AN ACT to abolish the Commissioners of the Tax and Levy Court of
Dorchester County, and provide for the election of Commissioners for
said County, by the People, and to prescribe their powers and duties.
1838, ch. 235.

Levy court
abolished.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the levy court of
Dorchester county be, and the same is hereby abolished.

Temporary
board of
commis-
sioners
named.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That John Muir, John Newton,
James Carroll, Solomon Kirwin, Thomas J. Pattison, Jacob
Wilson and John Griffith, be, and they are hereby created a
board of commissioners, who shall exeicise all the powers, and
perform all the duties heretofore required to be performed by
the levy court of said county, until the election of county com-
missioners as herein after provided for.

Election of
seven com-
missioners
in October.
1839.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That an election shall be held in
the several election districts of Dorchester county, on the first
Wednesday in October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
nine, at the same places and in the same manner that elections
are directed by law to be held for delegates to the general as-
sembly, and that the persons qualified to vote for delegates to
the general assembly of this state, shall, at said election, \ote
for seven persons, citizens of Dorchester county, possessing
the qualifications required in delegates to the general assem-
bly, to be commissioners for Dorchester county, and that for
the purpose of this election, and all elections of commissioners
hereafter to be held as provided for by this act, Dorchester

Three com-
missioners'
districts.

. county shall be divided into three commissioneis' distticts, in
the following manner, to wit: election districts number one, or
the Fork district, two, or the New Market district, three, or

No. 1.

the Vienna district, to compose the first commissioners' dis-
trict ; election districts number seven, or Cambridge district,
eight, or the Neck district, four, or Parson's Creek district, to

No. 2.

compose the second commissioners' district ; and election dis-
tricts number five, or Lake's district, and six, or Hooper's

No 3.

Island district, to constitute the third commissioners' district ;
and that two of the said persons to be voted for as commission-

Residence
in districts..

ers as aforesaid, shall be residents of the first commissioners'
district) three shall be residents of the second commissioners'
district) and two shall be residents of the third commissioners'
district, and the said seven persons shall be styled commission-
ers of Dorchester county, and the judges of election for each
district, or a majority of them, shall certify and return in form

Election
returns.

and manner, similar to their certificates and return of the elec-
tion of delegates as aforesaid, the number of votes given in the
said several election districts for each commissioner ; and the