ART. 10.] DOBOHEBTEB COUNTY. 507

CAMBBIDOE.

31. The inhabitants of Cambridge, in Dorchester county, arc
a body politic by the name of " The Commissioners of Cam-
bridge," and by that name may sue and be sued, and may have
and use a common seal, and may alter and break the same at
pleasure.

32. The said commissioners shall be five in number, and each
commissioner shall hold his office for five years from the time
of his election, and the office of the oldest of said commis-
sioners in time of service shall expire on the second Monday of
March in each year.

33. The free white male inhabitants of said town, above the
age of twenty-one years, who have resided within the limits of
said town for one year next preceding the election, and who have
property in possession of the value of thirty dollars, and free
white male persons above the age of twenty-one years, not
residents of said town, having a freehold estate or leasehold
property for a term exceeding twenty-one years in said town,
shall, on the second Monday of March, annually, at the court
house in said town, elect a person residing in said town, or
within throe miles thereof, and possessed of landed property in
the town in his own right, or in right of his wife, a commis-
sioner, in the place of the commissioner whose term of office
has expired.

84. The commissioners of said town, or a majority of them,
shall be judges of said election, and the proceedings thereof
shall be recorded under their direction.

35. Every commissioner, before he proceeds to act as judge
of election, shall make oath that he will faithfully and impar-
tially permit every person to vote at such election who shall be
qualified to vote, and that he will not suffer any person to vote
at such election who shall not in his judgment be qualified to
vote.

36. If any vacancy shall happen in the office of commissioner
by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the remaining com-
missioners shall cause a new election to be made at the court
house in said town to supply such vacancy during the remainder
of the term, and ten days' previous notice of such election shall