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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CLIII.
An Act to provide for the appointment of Commissioners for the regulation
and improvement of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester
Counties. Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 188.
Supplements, 1816, ch. 217; 1817, ch. 203. |
1811.
CHAP. 153.
Passed Jan. 4, 1812. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that it
would greatly contribute to the advantages and improvement of Salisbury,
in Somerset and Worcester counties, that the same should
be placed under the care and regulation of certain commissioners,
to be elected by the citizens thereof, and vested with sufficient
powers to forward and effect the purposes intended, therefore, |
Preamble. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
five judicious and discreet persons, residing in the said town, or
within three miles thereof, and possessed of landed property within
the said town in his own right, or in right of his wife, of the
value of one hundred dollars, shall be elected by ballot, on the
second Monday in March, in the year eighteen hundred and
twelve, at the house of Ann Chaille, in the said town, by the free
white male inhabitants thereof, above the age of one and twenty
years, and having resided within the limits of the said town for
the space of one year next preceding the election, and having property
in possession of the value of thirty dollars, and by such other
persons as are hereinafter authorised to vote at such election;
and the five persons who shall appear to have the greatest number
of votes at the close of the election, shall be declared to be duly
elected the commissioners of the said town, and shall have and exercise
the several powers and authorities delegated to them by this
act; and every free white male person, above the age of one and
twenty years, and having a freehold estate, or leasehold property
for a term exceeding one and twenty years, within the limits of
the said town, shall likewise have a right to vote in the election of
the said commissioners, notwithstanding such person may not be
resident therein. |
Election of commissioners
and
what description
of persons shall be
entitled to vote. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
so chosen
shall assemble on the first Monday in April next ensuing their
election, at such place as a majority of them shall fix upon in the
said town, and arrange and number themselves into five classes by
lot; and the office of the commissioner of the first class shall determine
at the expiration of one year after his election; the office
of the commissioner of the second class, at the expiration of two
years; the office of the commissioner of the third class, at the expiration
of three years; the office of the commissioner of the fourth
class, at the expiration of four years; and the office of the commissioner
of the fifth class, at the expiration of five years; and the
vacancy thus successively occasioned by the determination of their
respective offices, shall be supplied by an election of a judicious
and discreet person, resident and qualified as aforesaid, to be made
at such place as the commissioners shall appoint in the said town,
by the inhabitants and others qualified to vote as aforesaid, on the
second Monday of March in every year; and the person so elected
shall remain in office for the term of five years, and the succession
of the said commissioners be so continued as that one commissioner
shall be chosen annually. |
Commissioners to
meet and arrange
themselves into
classes by lots.
Their respective
terms of service. |
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