COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
AH ACT to abolish the Commissioners of the Tax and Levy Court of
Worcester County, provide for the election of Commissioners for amid
County by the people, and to prescribe their duties.— 1838, ch. 96.

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

Levy court
abolished.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That John Williams, Sr. James
Powell, William H. Merrill, Littleton Bowen, James Fooks of
D., John Fassett, Sr. and William Showell, who constitute the
present levy court of Worcester county, be, and they are
hereby created a board of commissioners, who shall exercise
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 commissioners herein after provided for.

Their
powers con-
ferred on
commis-
sioners until
an election.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That Worcester county shall be
divided into three commissioners' districts, for the purpose of
electing commissioners for said county ; that the first shall be
composed of the districts now known as the first, second and
seventh election districts, which shall elect two commissioners ;
and the second shall be composed of the districts now known
as the third and fourth election districts, which shall elect two
commissioners, and the third shall be composed of the districts
now known as the fifth, sixth, and eighth election districts,
which shall elect one commissioner, which said commissioners
when so elected, shall succeed to all the rights, privileges and
immunities of the present levy court of said county.

Divided
into three
commis-
sioners'
districts.
1st district,
two com-
missioners.
2d district,
two com-
missioners.
3d district,
one com-
missioner.
Their
powers.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the mode and manner of
electing the said commissioners for Worcester county, shall be
as follows : the voters of each election district who are now, or
may be at the time of election, qualified to vote for members of
the house of delegates of Maryland, shall on the first Wednes-
day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, and at the

Election,
October.
1839.

same time every three years thereafter, vote at their respective
place of voting, as already provided for by law, for such person
or persons, possessing the qualifications hereafter required, as
the commissioners' district of which said voters may be resi-
dent, shall be entitled to, according to the provisions of this
act, herein before prescribed.

Tri -an-
nually
thereafter.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in addition to the qualifica-
tions now requisite to be eligible to a seat in the house of dele-
gates of Maryland, the person voted for as commissioners, to be
entitled to said office shall have resided for at least one year
immediately preceding the election in the commissioners' dis-
trict in which said election is held.

Qualifica-
tion for
commis-
sioner.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the judges of elections for
each election district in said county, or a majority of them,

Mode of
conducting