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480 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 279.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Sections thirty-
two, thirty-three, thirty-seven and eighty-one
of Article twenty of the Public Local Laws for
Talbot County, relating to the number, powers
and election of the Commissioners of Easton and
to add an additional Section thereto.
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Commission-
ers.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Sections thirty-two, thirty-
three, thirty-seven and eighty-one of Article
twenty of the Public Local Laws for Talbot
County, relating to the number, powers and elec-
tion of the Commissioners of Easton be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to
read as follows :
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Election.
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Sec. 32. And be it enacted, That the number of
said Commissioners shall be three and shall be
elected for a term of three years ; the first election
for Commissioners under this Act shall take place
on the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight ; immediately after they shall be as-
sembled in consequence of the first election ; they
shall be divided by lot into three clases ; the seat
of the Commissioner of the first class shall be
vacated at the expiration of one year ; the second
class at the expiration of two years ; and the third
class at the expiration of three years from said first
election so that thereafter one Commissioner may
be elected every year, and shall receive a per diem
of not exceeding two dollars for every meeting
they shall actually attend.
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Voters.
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Sec. 33. And be it enacted, That the free white
male inhabitants of Easton, above the age of
twenty-one years, who have resided in said town
for one year next preceding the election, and all
white male persons of the age aforesaid, not resi-
dents of said town, who have a freehold estate or
leasehold property for a terra exceeding twenty-
one years within said town, shall on the first Mon-
day of May in each year at the Court House in
said town elect by ballot one (except at the elec-
tion to be held in May, eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight,) judicious and discreet person residing
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