CECIL COUNTY. 2009

shall be no choice for President or no choice for an entire Board of Com-
missioners, if there shall be two of said five officers duly elected, the per-
son so elected together with the President and Commissioners holding over
(if any), shall assemble immediately, and, having qualified, shall pro-
claim a new election to supply the vacancies occasioned by the failure to
elect, giving at least five days' previous public notice, posted as aforesaid,
of said election.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 194. 1870, ch. 100. 1892, ch. 149, sec. 194.
1910, ch. 678, sec. 194 (p. 707).

291. If at the election to be held on the third Monday of March, 1911,
it shall appear that less than two of said officers have been elected, then
the board now in office, or any three of them, shall proclaim a new elec-
tion, giving at least five days' public notice thereof, posted as aforesaid;
in case of the failure to elect four Commissioners on the third Monday of
March, 1911, the division into classes prescribed in Section 288 aforesaid,
shall not take place until after the vacancies are filled; and, should a va-
cancy arise in any of said offices because of the death, resignation, refusal
to qualify, removal or otherwise of the persons elected to fill them, the said
board shall proclaim a new election to fill the same, giving at least five
days' notice thereof.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8. sec. 195. 1870, ch. 100. 1910, ch. 678, sec. 195 (p. 707).

292. Every President and Commissioner so aforesaid elected, before
he enters upon the duties of his office, shall take an oath before some
justice of the peace of said county that he will diligently and faithfully,
according to the best of his judgment, perform the duties of the position
to which he has been elected without favor, partiality or prejudice; and a
certificate of such qualification shall be made and returned by said justice
to said board, to be filed and recorded among its proceedings.

1894, ch. 563, sec. 195A.

293. Said President and Commissioners shall annually, on the first
Monday in April, appoint by ballot a treasurer, who shall not be a mem-
ber of said board, whose duties it shall be to receive and receipt for all
moneys belonging to said corporation, or to which it shall in anywise be
entitled, to receive all fines and penalties imposed by said board, and to
discharge such other duties appertaining to his office, as now or may here-
after be imposed by law or any ordinance passed by said board; provided,
that before entering upon the duties of his office, the said treasurer shall
annually give bond to the said President and Commissioners, with securi-
ties to be approved by said board, in double the amount of money which
said board shall estimate will come into the hands of said treasurer during
the term for which he shall be appointed, conditioned for the faithful dis-
charge of his duties as such treasurer; and the said board shall have au-
thority at any time to require said treasurer to give additional bond or
security, conditioned as aforesaid, when the amount of money in his hands,
or to come into his hands during his term of office, shall be greater than