| 1804.
CHAP. 82. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
river aforesaid, then with said waters to the beginning; which
town shall be called and known by the name of Saint-Michael's. |
| Plot to be made out. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the surveyor of
the county aforesaid,
or any other person whom the commissioners aforesaid, or a
majority of them, shall appoint to survey, plot and lay out, the
lands and grounds aforesaid, as herein before directed, shall make
out a fair and exact plot of the town, and resurvey thereof, whereby
each lot, square, street, lane, way and alley, may appear to be
well distinguished by their respective names, and the same plot,
with a full and plain certificate thereof, shall deliver to the commissioners
as aforesaid, to be by them disposed of as herein after
directed; and the said surveyor, or the person appointed as aforesaid,
shall have and receive, for laying out the town aforesaid,
such sum as the aforesaid commissioners shall think reasonable, to
be paid as herein after directed. |
Clerk to be appointed
—his duties. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or
a major part of them, shall and they are hereby required to employ
some sufficient person as their clerk; and shall administer an
oath, or affirmation, to such clerk, for the due performance of his
office, which clerk shall, and he is hereby obliged, to find and provide
a sufficient bound book for registering and entering the proceedings
of the said commissioners in the premises, and shall duly
and faithfully register and enter in such book the certificate of the
surveyor aforesaid, the number and names of each respective lot,
square, street, lane, way and alley, in said town, and all other the
transactions of said commissioners relative to said town, which
said registry, together with the plot of the town and resurvey
aforesaid, shall be carefully examined and inspected by the said
commissioners, and after the same is completed, shall be lodged
with, and delivered to, the clerk of the same county, to be by him
recorded among the records of said county; and the said commissioners,
or a major part of them, shall limit or ascertain what fees
their clerk shall have and receive for the several services by him
to be done by virtue of this act, to be paid as herein after directed. |
Election of commissioners
for said
town. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed by
this act shall continue to act as such until the first Monday in
January, eighteen hundred and six; when an election shall be held
in the said town of Saint-Michael's, at such place as the commissioners
may appoint, and on the same day in every year thereafter,
commencing at nine o'clock in the morning and closing at four
in the afternoon; at which the freemen of said town, qualified to
vote for delegates to the general assembly of Maryland, shall vote,
by ballot, for five persons, residents of said town one year preceding
the election, and above the age of twenty-one years, as commissioners
for the said town, to serve from the day of election for
one whole year next thereafter, and also for one person, qualified
as aforesaid, to serve as bailiff to said town for the like term of
one year; and it is further provided, that the three or two commissioners
first named in this act shall hold the first election, and be
judges thereof, and that at every successive election thereafter the
three or two commissioners who shall have the highest poll as commissioners
at the last election at which they were elected as such,
shall be the judges of said election, which judges shall be qualified
by any one of the commissioners, or justices of the peace, by oath |
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