one hundred and forty-two, one hundred and forty-
three, one hundred and forty-four, one hundred and
forty-five, one hundred and forty-six, one hundred
and forty-seven, one hundred and forty-eight, one
hundred and forty-nine, one hundred and fifty, one
hundred and fifty-one, one hundred and fifty-two,
one hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and
fifty-six, one hundred and fifty-seven, one hundred
and fifty-eight, one hundred and fifty-nine, one hun-
dred and sixty, one hundred and sixty-one, one hun-
dred and sixty-two, one hundred and sixty-throe and
one hundred and sixty-four of article eight, of the
Public Local Laws, entitled " Cecil county," and re-
lating to Port Deposit, be and the same hereby are
amended and re-enacted, so as to read as follows:
141. The inhabitants of the Town of Port Deposit,
in Cecil county, are a corporation by the name of
President and Commissioners of Port Deposit, and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, may
sue and be sued, may purchase, hold and dispose of
real, personal and mixed property, for the use and
benefit of said town, and may have and use a com-
mon seal, which may be altered at pleasure.
142. All male inhabitants of said town, citizens of
the United States, above twenty-one years of age,
who shall have bona fide resided in said town for the
space of six months, and twelve months in the State
next preceding the election, shall, on tire last Monday
in February, in each year, at such house as shall be
designated by the President and Commissioners, by
a notice to be put up in at least five of the most pub-
lic places in said town at least one week before the
day of election, elect, by ballot, seven judicious
and discreet persons, citizens of the United States,
who shall have resided within the limits of said town
for at least twelve months preceding the election, as
commissioners of said town; the persons thus elected
as commissioners shall, within one month after their
election, qualify by taking the oath prescribed by the
sixth section of the first article of the Constitution
of Maryland, before a Justice of the Peace in and for
Cecil county, and at their first meeting, which shall
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