CECIL COUNTY. 1937

of the County Commissioners of the county where such certificates have
been issued, and they are directed, to levy upon the assessable property
of said county for the payment of the same at their maturity in the annual
levy next preceding such maturity.

CECILTON.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 55. 1882, ch. 408.

55. The inhabitants of the town of Cecilton are a corporation by the
name of "The President and Commissioners of the town of Cecilton,"
and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued;
may purchase, hold and dispose of real, personal and mixed property for
the use and benefit of said town, and may have and use a common seal,
which may be altered at pleasure.

P. L. K, 1888, Art. 8, sec. 56. 1882, ch. 408.

56. Said Commissioners shall be five in number, and shall be elected on
the first Monday in May, annually; all the male inhabitants of said town,
citizens of the United States, above twenty-one years of age, who shall
have bona fide resided in the town one year next preceding the election at
which they shall offer to vote, shall be entitled to vote for said Commis-
sioners.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 57. 1882, ch. 408.

57. They shall annually designate the time and place of holding said
election, and give at least two weeks' notice thereof by notices set up at
five of the most prominent places in the town; and prior to the first Mon-
day of May in each year, shall appoint some person to act as judge of
said election, who, before acting as such, shall qualify in the same manner
as judges of election for State and county officers in this State are re-
quired to qualify before a justice of the peace, and shall open the polls
at two o'clock P. M. on the first Monday in May in each year and close
the same at six oclock P. M.; and the five persons voted for at said elec-
tion, who shall respectively receive the highest number of votes, shall be
commissioners for the town for the ensuing year, and until their successors
are duly elected and qualified.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 58. 1882, ch. 408.

58. If at any election for Commissioners, it shall appear by the certifi-
cate of the judge of said election that any two or more persons voted for
as Commissioners have received the same number of votes, so that there
is no choice for an entire board, but a vacancy in one or more seats, if
there shall be as many as three duly elected, the persons so elected shall
assemble immediately, and having qualified as commissioners, shall pro-
claim a new election to supply the vacancies occasioned by the failure to
elect, giving at least five days' notice of said election.