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56 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 40.
AN ACT to incorporate the town of Westernport,
Allegany County, Maryland.
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Incorporated,
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the citizens of the town of
Westernport, in Allegany County, shall be and
they are hereby made a body corporate, by the
name of the Commissioners of Westernport, with
all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have
common seal and perpetual succession.
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Elect Com-
missioners.
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Sec. 2, And be it enacted, That the free white
male citizens of Westernport aforesaid, of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of
the United States, who have resided in said town
for and during the space of six months next pre-
ceding the first Monday in May next, may on that
day, at the usual place of holding elections in said
town, and on the first Monday in June, in each
and every year thereafter, at such house as shall
hereafter he designated by the municipality, be
authorized to elect five Commissioners for said
town, who shall be owners of real estate in the
town, and who shall have resided within the limits
of the same eighteen mouths next preceding the
election.
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How elected.
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That a Justice of the
Peace, for the time being residing in said town,
shall appoint by writing, under his hand and seal,
three Judges to hold the first election, who shall
keep the polls open from nine o'clock in the morn-
ing until five in the afternoon, and shall conduct
the said election in the same manner in which the
Judges of Election are now directed to conduct an
election for Delegates to the General Assembly as
far as may be consistent with the provisions of this
Act, and the said Judges shall make returns under
their hands and seals of the persons elected to the
Clerk of Allegany County, to be kept by him.
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Future
elections.
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all future elec-
tions shall be held and conducted as shall be from
time to time directed by the laws of the Corpora-
tion, the same not being inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act.
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