| 1815.
CHAP. 136.
Passed Jan. 23, 1816. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAP. CXXXVI.
An Act to provide for the appointment of Commissioners, for the
regulation
and improvement of the Town of Cumberland, in Allegany
County, and to incorporate the same. Lib.
TH. no. 4, fol. 636.
A Supplement, 1818, ch. 11. See 1805, ch. 92, and 1816, ch. 79. |
| Election of commissioners. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
five judicious and discreet persons, residing in said town, and
holding real property therein, shall be elected by ballot, on the
first Monday of June eighteen hundred and sixteen, and on the
the same day in every year thereafter, at the court-house in said
town, by the free white male citizens of the age of twenty-one
years, and having resided in the said town of Cumberland for the
space of one whole year next preceding the day of election, and
the five persons who shall appear to have the greatest number of
votes at the close of the election, shall be declared duly elected the
commissioners of said town, and shall have and exercise all the
powers vested in them by this act. |
| Meetings of commissioners. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
shall
meet upon the business of the town at least four times in every
year, to wit: On the first Monday in May, July, October and December,
and oftener if they deem it necessary; that at their first
meeting in each year they shall elect, from among themselves, one
of their own members to be their chief burgess for that year, provided
he continues so long in office, and upon all questions the
chief burgess shall be entitled to vote as one of the commissioners. |
| Town incorporated. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the town of Cumberland
shall
be and he is hereby erected, constituted, and made an incorporate town,
and that the corporate body of the said town consist of a chief
burgess and four other commissioners, which chief burgess and
commissioners shall be a body incorporate and one community
for ever, in right, and by the name of The Chief Burgess and the
other Commissioners of the Town of Cumberland, and shall be
able and capable to sue and be sued at law, and to act and to execute,
do and perform, as a body incorporate, which shall have succession
for ever, and to that end to have a common seal, and the
same to change and alter at pleasure. |
Commissioners to
qualify. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
so chosen
shall assemble on the first Monday in July next ensuing their election,
or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, at the court-house
in said town, and before they proceed to execute the duties imposed
on them by virtue of this act, shall take an oath, or affirmation,
before some justice of the peace, that they will diligently and
faithfully, to the best of their judgment, perform the duties of commissioners
of the said town, according to the provisions of this
act, without favour, partiality or prejudice; and a certificate of
such qualification shall be made out and returned by such justice
of the peace to the said commissioners, to be filed and recorded
among their proceedings. |
Vacancies, how to
be supplied. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any vacancy
shall happen in
the office of one or more the commissioners, by death, resignation,
or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the remaining commissioners,
and they are hereby required, to cause an election to be
made at the court-house in said town, by all person qualified to
vote as aforesaid, for one or more persons, resident as aforesaid, |
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