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73.
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the act of assembly,* entitled, an act incorporating the justices
of the levy court in the respective counties in this stute, for
the purposes therein mentioned, as may be inconsistent with
this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
AH ACT to abolish the Levy Court and provide for the election by the
People of Commissioners for Talbot County, and prescribing their
powers and duties. — 1830, ch. 38.
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Commis-
sioners,
how and
when to be
elected.
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SEC. 1. Be if enacted, by (he General Assembly of Maryland,
That the persons qualified to vote for delegates to the general
assembly of this state, shall at the time and places for holding
the election for delegates to the next general assembly, vote for
five persons, qualified citizens of Talbot county, one of whom
to be resident in Saint Michael's district, two resident in the
Easton district, one to be resident in the Chapel district, and
one in the Trappe district, having the same qualifications as
are or shall be required for delegates to the general assembly,
to be styled Commissioners for Talbot County ; and the judges
of elections for each district, or a majority of them, shall cer-
tify under their hands, and return in form or manner similar to
their certificates and return of the election of delegates as
aforesaid, the number of votes given in the said districts for
each commissioner, and when met at the court-house in Talbot
county to ascertain and certify the number of votes given as
aforesaid for commissioners by the returning judges, a certifi-
cate to be made out and filed by the said returning judges of
elections, in a form and similar to the certificates of the elec-
tion of delegates, to be delivered to the clerk of the county
court, whose duty it shall be to record the same, that the per-
sons by name residing in the respective election districts,
whom they shall ascertain to have received, as commissioners,
the greatest number of votes as commissioner for the district
designated by their votes, in the districts where they shall re-
side, are duly elected commissioners to serve for the period of
three years from the date of their said election, and that the
persons so elected shall, out of their own body, elect their pre-
sident; and if any commissioner so elected, shall die, resign,
refuse, or neglect for twenty days to qualify as commissioner
under this act, or shall remove from the county at any time
within the period for whiph he shall have been elected, the
remaining commissioners shall appoint a person qualified as is
herein before provided as 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, a resident
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