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LEVIN WINDER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
and vested with sufficient powers to forward and effect the purposes
intended; therefore, |
NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 72. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
ten 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 thirteen (a),
at the court-house in the said town, by the free white male
inhabitants thereof, above the age of one and twenty years,
who have resided within the limits of the said town for the space
of one year next preceding the election, and also by persons who
have property in the said town, in possession, of the value of thirty
dollars, and by such other persons as are hereinafter authorised
to vote at such election; and the ten persons who shall 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 not exceeding one and twenty years,
within the limits of said town, shall likewise have a right to vote
in the election of the said commissioners, notwithstanding such
person may not be resident therein.
(a) See, May 1813, ch. 2. |
Commissioners,
when and by
whom to be elected. |
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 commissioners of the first class shall determine
at the expiration of one year after their election; the office of
the commissioners of the second class at the expiration of two
years; the office of the commissioners of the third class at the expiration
of three years; the office of the commissioners of the
fourth class at the expiration of four years; and the office of the
commissioners 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 two judicious
and discreet persons, 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 (b), and the
persons so elected shall remain in office for the term of five years,
and the succession of the said commissioners be so continued as
that two commissioners shall be chosen annually.
(b) By May 1813, ch. 2, if election
not then made, it may take place at any
time after giving 10 days notice. |
Commissioners to
meet and arrange
themselves into
classes by lots—
Their respective
terms of service. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That any justice of
the peace for
Worcester county, shall in the first instance be the judge of the
said election, and shall return his certificate 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, |
Judges of elections
they shall take an
oath. |
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