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73. The limits of said town shall -extend to the distance of one-
quarter of a mile each way, from the tavern occupied by John
Oliver in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, and shall include
the first, second, third and fourth additions to said town, as
described on the plats and surveys thereof.

74. The free male white citizens of Frostburg, of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, who have resided in said
town for six months next preceding the election, shall on the
first Monday in June, annually, at the town hall in said town,
elect five freeholders, who have resided in said town for six
months next preceding the election, commissioners of Frostburg.

75. All elections shall be held and conducted as shall from time
to time be directed by the laws of the corporation not inconsist-
ent with this charter.

76. The said commissioners shall at their first meeting after
an election, choose one of their number president of the Board,
who shall preside at their meetings, and preserve order and
enforce the provisions of this charter and the ordinances of said
corporation.

77. If during the year for which they were elected, any of the
said commissioners shall die, resign, remove from said town, or
be otherwise disqualified, an election to fill the vacancy shall,
after ten days' notice given by said commissioners, be held to fill
the vacancy, and all persons qualified to vote at the general
shall be qualified to vote at such special election.

78. The said commissioners may meet from time to time, as
occasion may require, and not less than once in every three
months, and may appoint a clerk, and assign his duties, and
allow him such compensation as they may think proper.

79. All ordinances passed by the commissioners shall be en-
tered by their clerk in a book to be kept by him for that pur-
pose, and shall be open at all times to the inspection of any per-
son interested, and copies of all ordinances shall be put up in
the most public places of said town, that the same may be gene-
rally known.

80. The said commissioners may make all such by-laws and
ordinances, not contrary to law, as they may deem expedient for