330

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

them; and the said qualified voters are authorized to elect,

on the second Monday in January, in the year 1905, at the time

and place of election of Mayor, four Commissioners for said

town, who shall have resided within the limits of the same

eighteen months next preceding the election, two of whom

Commission-
ers' terms.

shall be elected for and serve a term of one year, and two of

whom shall be elected for and serve a term of two years ;

and thereafter on the expiration of the terms for which the

said Commissioners shall have been elected, there shall be

elected two Commissioners for the term of two years to suc-

ceed the Commissioners whose terms shall thus have respec-

tively expired, and the terms for which the said Commissioners

shall thereafter be elected shall be for the full term of two

years ; and the qualified voters are authorized to elect annu-

ally one person to serve as clerk for the Mayor and Commis-

Clerk to the

sioners of said town, provided that the person so elected shall

Commission-

have the legal qualifications of a Commissioner therein ; and

ers.

the said Mayor and Commissioners, at their first meeting in

February after their election and qualification, shall elect, in

each year, one person to serve as bailiff of said town.

244. Said Commissioners, clerk and bailiff, shall qualify

Oath to be ad-

by taking and subscribing the following oath, to be adminis-

ministered
when quali-

tered by the Mayor or some justice of the peace in Allegany

ifying.

County : "I, ............. do swear (or affirm) that I will

execute the office of Commissioner of Westernport, or clerk,

or bailiff, as the case may be, to the best of my ability without

favor, partiality or prejudice;" which oath shall be filed among

the records of the town. The Mayor and Commissioners shall

meet on the first Monday of February, in each year, and as

often thereafter as the business of the town may require,

but not less than once in every three months.

249. The Mayor and Commissioners shall have, during the

Limiting sum

month of March, power to levy an equal tax on the property

to be levied.

within the limits of said town to such an amount each year,

not exceeding the sum of forty cents on each one hundred

dollars worth of property as may be deemed necessary for

the government of said town, which said taxes so levied and

assessed shall be collected promptly by the bailiff of said town,

and by said bailiff paid over as collected at the end of each

and every month to the treasurer of said town, appointed by

said Mayor and Commissioners ; and the said bailiff shall have

the same power to distrain for said taxes as the collector of

public county taxes has to distrain for the same; and the said

Mayor and Commissioners shall fix the amount of bond rate