1878

DORCHESTER COUNTY.

commissioners of the third class, and the commissioners to be
elected at the annual election of eighteen hundred and forty,
eighteen hundred and forty-one and eighteen hundred and

Term three
years.

forty-two, shall hold their offices for the term of three years,
and at the annual election for ever thereafter, two commission-
ers qualified as aforesaid, shall be elected to supply the places
of those whose term of office shall be about to expire, and in

Case of a
tie.

the event of a tie between two or more persons, the same shall
be decided by ballot at the first regular meeting of said com-
missioners.

Case of
vacancy.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if any commissioner elected
as aforesaid, shall die, resign, or refuse, or neglect for twenty
days after his election, to qualify as commissioner, or shall
remove from the county, at any time within the period for
which he shall have been elected, the remaining commission-
ers, who shall have qualified according to law, shall proceed
to appoint a person, possessing the qualifications required in
the commissioner so dying, resigning, or refusing, or neglect-
ing to qualify, or removing from the county as aforesaid, to fill
his place, and the commissioner, or commissioners so appointed,
shall continue in office until the next ensuing annual election
in the said county, and until the election and qualification of
his successor, when a person duly qualified as aforesaid, to
serve the residue of the term of the commissioner so dying,
resigning, refusing or neglecting to qualify, or removing as
aforesaid.

Oath of
office.

SEC. C. And be it enacted, That every commissioner elected,
or appointed as aforesaid, shall, before he enters on the duties
of his office, take and subscribe before some judge, or justice of
the peace, an oath or affirmation, that he will faithfully, dili-
gently and impartially, exercise the powers, and perform the
duties of commissioner for Dorchester county, as authorized
and enjoined by law, according to the best of his skill and
judgment, without being influenced by favour, affection, ha-
tred, malice, or ill-will) and that he will in making all appoint-
ments to office, vote for such person or persons, among those
willing to accept, as in his judgment and belief shall be most
capable and best qualified, to perform the duties of such office,
which oath shall be recorded in a book, to be kept among the
records of Dorchester county court.

Board in-
corporated. ,

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That the commissioners appointed,
or elected as aforesaid, and their successors, shall be, and they
are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
name, style and title, of the commissioners of Dorchester
county, and by that name shall have continued and perpetual
succession, and be capable in law of suing and being sued, of
making and using a corporate seal, and altering the same, of