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corporation purpose or in aid of the indigent or poor or for any other
purpose within said town; and the said corporation may lease or otherwise
dispose of any property now held, or which may be hereafter acquired
by said corporation, by first giving proper notice of such lease or sale
in one or more of the newspapers printed in Caroline County once a week
for three successive weeks before such lease or sale.

1906, ch. 284, sec. 3.

275. The boundaries of Greensboro shall be as they have been or may
hereafter be fixed by the Commissioners of said town, from time to time,
provided that said Commissioners shall not extend the boundaries of said
town so that the same shall include more than five hundred acres.

1906, ch. 284, sec. 4. 1922, ch. 375. 1927, ch. 15, sec. 4.

276. The male and female inhabitants of Greensboro, citizens of the
State of Maryland and of the United States above the age of twenty-one
years, who have resided in said town for at least six months next preced-
ing the election and who are assesed on the tax books of said town with
real or personal property to the value of at least one hundred dollars, or
females whose husbands are assessed to the above amount, and all other
male and female residents of said town possessed of the qualifications of
citizenship, age and residence as aforesaid, who shall on or before the
third Monday in March of each year pay to the treasurer or bailiff of
said town a sum of money equal to the tax rate for that year on one
hundred dollars, and receive a receipt therefor, and no others, shall be-
tween the hours of one and five o'clock in the afternoon, at such places
as the Commissioners of said town shall appoint, elect by ballot from
among the residents and qualified voters of said town who shall be as-
sessed on the tax books thereof with at least three hundred dollars' worth
of property, persons to serve as Commissioners of Greensboro as follows.

On the fourth Monday of April in the year 1927, five persons, three
to hold office as Commissioners of Greensboro for one year and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified and two to hold office as such
Commissioners for two years and until their successors are duly elected
and qualified. On the fourth Monday of April in each even numbered
year thereafter three persons to hold office as Commissioners of Greens-
boro for two years and until their successsors are duly elected and qualified;
and on the fourth Monday of April in each odd numbered year there-
after two persons to hold office as such Commissioners for two years and
until their successors are duly elected and qualified.

1906, ch. 284, sec. 5.

277. The Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be judges of
said election, or they may appoint any three voters to act as judges, and
the proceedings shall be recorded under their direction; and every Com-
missioner or person so appointed before he opens an election shall make
oath before a justice of the peace or notary public for Caroline County