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proportions, beginning from the first day of May in the year nineteen
hundred and eight.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 52. 1880, ch. 302.

90. The male inhabitants of Chestertown above the age of twenty-one
years, who are assessed for the purpose of State and county taxation upon
real or personal property located in said town, for the year in which they
may offer to vote, and who have also resided in said town for one year next
preceding the election, and also all untaxed male inhabitants of said town
possessing the qualification of residence above set forth, whose wives are
assessed as aforesaid, shall elect by ballot on the fourth Monday of April
in each year, at the court-house in said town, one judicious and discreet
person, being the holder of assessed real or leasehold estate in said town
in his own right, or in right of his wife, at least thirty years of age, and
residing in said town, commissioner of said town.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 53. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 36.

91. Five days before the day of election, the said commissioners shall
annually appoint some justice residing in said town, a judge of election,
and the said justice shall appoint a clerk to take down the votes for said
commissioner; and the said clerk, before he shall proceed to act as such,
shall take an oath before the said justice that he will truly, faithfully
and impartially take down the names of all such persons as shall be per-
mitted by the said judge to vote at said election.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 54. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 37.

92. The polls for the election of said commissioner shall be opened at
the court-house in said town, at the hour of nine o'clock in the morning,
and shall be closed at the hour of six o'clock in the afternoon, and no
vote shall be taken before or after said hours, respectively.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 55. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 38.

93. After the polls are closed the judge shall proceed forthwith, in the
presence of such persons as may attend, to count the ballots, and shall
publicly declare the person having the highest number of votes duly
elected commissioner of Chestertown for the ensuing three years; and
if any two or more persons shall have an equal number of ballots in their
favor, the said judge shall immediately determine the choice by lot be-
tween those having an equal number of votes.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 56. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 39. 1924, ch. 267.

94. If any Commissioner so elected shall die, refuse to act, resign or
remove out of said town the remaining Commissioners shall appoint a
person duly qualified to fill said office, who shall hold the same until the
next annual election for Commissioners when a successor shall be elected,
whose tenure of office shall be for the residue of the term so made vacant.

* Adopted by the voters.