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be made and returned by such justice of the peace to the
said commissioners, to be filed and recorded among their pro-
ceedings.

42. The said commissioners may meet and adjourn from time
to time, as they shall see fit; and shall on the first meeting after
said election choose from their own body a president, who shall
preside at all meetings of the commissioners, vote on all ques-
tions before them, and remain in office until superseded by the
appointment of a new president, and after a new election of
commissioners.

43. If any of the commissioners shall die, resign, or remove
from the said village, be non compos mentis, or otherwise disquali-
fied, during the year for which he may be elected, an election
to fill the vacancy shall be held, at which all persons qualified to
vote at a regular election shall be entitled to vote.

44. If the citizens of said village at any time neglect to make
an election at the time before mentioned, the power of electing
commissioners shall not therefore cease; but the power of the
inhabitants of said village in that respect, shall continue the same
as though such an election had been made, and the commissioners
for the time being shall continue and remain in office until such
election shall be held.

45. The limits of the village of Leonard Town shall be as
established, marked and bounded by the commissioners, aaid
recorded among their proceedings. •

46. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, may appoint
a clerk and assign his duties, and allow him such compensation
as they may think proper; and all ordinances passed by the said
commissioners, or a majority of them, shall by their clerk be
entered in a book by him to be kept for that purpose; and shall
be open at all times for the inspection of any person interested;

and copies of all ordinances shall be published or put up in the
most public'places of said village.

47. The said commissioners may levy and collect taxes in said
village, not exceeding in any one year fifteen cents in the hun-
dred dollars on the assessable property of said village; and, for
the purpose of making said levy, they shall once in every two
years, or oftener if they think proper, appoint all assessor, who