| NOV. 1812.
CHAP. 72. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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 the 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 other qualified to vote as aforesaid, of
one or more judicious and discreet persons, resident 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
shall 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 take 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 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 necessary for the removal of nuisances
which now exist, or which may hereafter be erected in said
town for the prevention of geese and swine from going at large in
said town, and to recommend such plans and regulations as will
advance the health, convenience and cleanliness, of 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 repaired and improved whenever
a majority of the said inhabitants shall reasonable require the
same to be done, and sufficient sums of money can be raised, by
subscription or otherwise, for this salutary purpose; to cause the |
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