| 1811.
CHAP. 153.
Judges of elections
—they shall
take an oath. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of the
peace for the
counties of Somerset or Worcester shall, in the first instance, be
the judge of the said election, and shall return his certificates
thereof to the said commissioners, on the day first appointed for
their meeting, and the same shall be filed and recorded among their
proceedings; and at every subsequent election, the commissioners
of the said town, or the major part of them, shall be judges of
such election, and the proceedings thereof shall be recorded under
their direction; and every commissioner, before he shall proceed to
open an election, shall take an oath or affirmation, that he will
faithfully and impartially permit every person to vote at such election,
who shall be qualified to vote for a commissioner of the said
town, according to the directions of this act, and that he will not
suffer any person to vote at such election who shall not, in his
judgment, be qualified to vote as aforesaid. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vacancy
shall happen in
the office of one or more of commissioners, by death, resignation,
removal or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the remaining commissioners,
and they are hereby required to cause an election to be
made at such place as they shall appoint in the said town, by the
inhabitants thereof, and others qualified to vote as aforesaid, of
one or more judicious and discreet persons, residents and qualified
as aforesaid, to supply such vacancy during the remainder of the
term; and the time of holding such intervening election shall be
previously notified for the space of ten days preceding the election. |
Commissioners to
take an oath. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every commissioner
to be appointed
in pursuance of this act, before he shall proceed to execute
his office, shall tae an oath or affirmation before some justice
of the peace, that he will diligently and faithfully, according to
the best of his judgment, perform the duties of a commissioner of
the said town, according to the directions of this act, without favour,
partiality or prejudice; and a certificate of such qualification
shall be made and returned by such justice of the peace, to the said
commissioners, to be filed and recorded among their proceedings. |
Stated days of
meeting. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or the
major part of them, shall meet together at such public place within
the limits of the said town as shall be previously notified, on the
first Monday in April in the year aforesaid, and statedly on the
first Monday in every third month thereafter, and as much oftener
by adjournment as they shall judge to be necessary; and when so
assembled, the said commissioners, or the major part of them,
shall proceed to execute the several powers and authorities vested
in them by this act, from time to time, as occasion shall require. |
Commissioners to
meet and transact
such business as
they or the inhabitants
may determine
to be necessary.
Powers specified. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall be,
and they are hereby authorised, empowered and required, to meet
as aforesaid, and from time to time to recommend such plans and
regulations as they shall judge beneficial to the town, or the inhabitants
thereof, and to adopt the same, (provided a majority of
the persons entitled to vote for commissioners at a meeting to be
called shall agree thereto;) to cause to be removed all nuisances
and obstructions that may interrupt the passage of the said inhabitants,
or others, in the streets, lanes and alleys, of the said town;
to cause the principal or other streets to be required and improved |
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