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LAWS OF MARYLAND. :
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1830.
CHAP 98.
Passed Feb 14.
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CHAPTER 98.
An Act to incorporate Westminster, in Frederick Coun-
ty.
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Adjoining
towns to be
called West-
minster
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the four adjoining towns now called and
known by the names of Westminster, New London, Win-
ter's Addition, and New Edenborough, together with Pig-
man's Addition, and the intermediate space between Win-
ter's Addition and Pieman's Addition, shall forever here-
after be called and known by the name of Westminster.
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Constituted a
corporate
town
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That Westminster atoresaid
shall he and is hereby constituted a corporate town, and
the inhabitants thereof constituted a body politic and cor-
porate, by the name of The Commissioners of Westmin-
ster, and as such shall have perpetual succession, and hy
their corporate name may sue and be sued, implead and be
impleaded.
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Commission-
ers lobe elect-
ed
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the free white male ci-
tizens of Westminster aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one
years, and upwards, and having resided one year in the
state, and six months in the said town, next preceding the
election, and who are or have become citizens of the Unit-
ed States by naturalization, be authorised to elect, on the
first Monday of April in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-one, and on the same day annually forever thereaf-
ter, five commissioners for the said town, who shall have
been inhabitants thereof three years previous to the day of
election, and above the age of twenty-five years, the elec-
tion to be held in the most central part of said town, and
the polls to be kept open from nine o'clock in the morn-
ing until six in the evening.
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Judges of e-
lection
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Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That Joshua Cockey, Jacob
Powder, junior, and Jacob Grove, or any of them, be and
they are hereby appointed judges of the first election for
commissioners, and the said judge or judges shall conduct
the said election in the manner in which the judges of an
election district are now by law directed to hold an elec-
tion for delegates to the general assembly, as far as may he
consistent with the other provisions of this act, and the said
judge or judges shall make return, under his or their hand
or hands and seal, of the persons elected, to the commis-
sioners elected, or some one of them, after the said com-
missioner or commissioners shall have taken the oath as
prescribed in this law, to be by them safely kept and re-
corded j all future elections to be held by one or more
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