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CHAP. 38;
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LAWS OF MARYLAND,
time and places for holding the election for delegates to
the next general assembly, vote for five persons, qualified
citizens of Talbot county, ore of whom to be resident in
Saint-Michael's district, two resident in the Easton dis-
trict, one to be resident in the Chapel district, and one in
the Trappe district, having the same qualifications as are or
phall be required for delegates to the general assembly, to
be styled Commissioners for Talbot county; and the judges
of elections for each district, or a majority of them, shall
certify under their hands, and return in form or manner
similar to their certificates and return of the election of
delegates as aforesaid, the number of votes given in the
Said districts for each commissioner, an I when met at the
court-house in Talbot county 1o ascertain and certify the
number of votes given as aforesaid for commissioners by
the returning judges, a certificate to be made out and filecf
by the said returning judges of elections, in a form and si-
milar to the certificates of the election of delegates, to he-
delivered to the clerk of the county court, whose duty it
shall be to record the same, that the persons by name re-
siding in the respective election districts, whom they shall
ascertain to have received, as commissioners, the greatest
number of votes as commissioner for the district designat-
ed by their votes, in the districts where they shall reside,
are duly elected commissioners to serve for the period of
three years from the date of their said election, and that
the persons so elected shall, out of their own body, elect
their president; and if any commissioner so elected, shall
clie, resign, refuse, or neglect for twenty days to qualify as
commissioner under this act, or shall remove from the
county at any time within the period for which he shall
have been elected, the remaining commissioners shall ap-
point a person qualified as is heroin before provided as in
case of an original election, to fill his place, until the next
annual election for delegates to the general assembly, when
a person shall be elected, a resident within the said elec-
tion district where such commissioner so dying, resigning,
refusing, neglecting to qualify, or removing; from the county
as aforesaid, was elected, shall vote in like manner as at
first provided by this act, for another person with like qua-
lifications, to serve for the residue of his term.
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To take an
oath.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That every commissioner
elected or appointed as aforesaid, shall, before he enters
upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe before some
judge or justice of the peace of his county, an act oath or af-
firmation, as the case may be, that he will faithfully, dili-
gently and impartially, exercise the powers and perform
the duties of a commissioner, as authorised and enjoined
by law, according to the best of his skill and judgment,
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