1833..

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 145,

Wise's addition Jo Middletown, in Frederick county, shall
be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate, by
the name of the Burgess and Commissioners of Middle-
town, with all the privileges of a body corporate, to have
a common seal and perpetual succession.

Election of Burgess
and commission
er

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the free white male citi-
zens of Middletown aforesaid, within the corporate limits
of the said town, of the age of twenty-one years and up-
wards, und having resided in the said town for and during
the space of six months next preceding the election, shall
on the first Monday in April next, at the house now occu-
pied by William Perry, and on the first Monday in March
in every succeeding year thereafter at such place as the
Burgess and Commissioners may direrct, elect by ballot, a
Burgess and five commissioners, who shall have resided
within the corporate limits of the said town twelve months
next preceding the day of said election.

Conducting first
election

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That a justice of the peace for
the time being, residing in the said town, shall appoint by
writing under his hand and seal, one judge to hold the
first election, who shall keep the polls open from nine
o'clock in the morning until two in the evening; and shall
conduct the said election in the manner in which judges of
the elections are now directed by law to conduct an elec-
tion for delegates to the General Assembly, as far as may
be consistent with the provisions of this act; and the said
judge shall make two returns under his hand and seal, of
the persons elected, one for the clerk of Frederick county,
to be by him safe kept, the, other to the Burgess and com-
missioners of said town.

Subsequent elec-
tion

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all future elections shall
be held and conducted as shall from time to time be di-
rected by the bye-laws of the corporation, the same not
being inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Meetings- organi-
zation

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the Burgess and com-
sioners aforesaid, qr a majority of them, may meet together
from time to time, as often as occasion may require, upon
the business of the town, and not less than once in every
three months, at which meeting the said Burgess shall pre-
side; and if during the year for which they may be elected
any of the five commissioners should die, resign, remove
from said town, or become non compos mentis, an election
shall be called by said Burgess, to fill the vacancy, at which