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fied to hold the office of town commissioner, and the first election for town
commissioners under this law shall be held on the first Monday in June,
eighteen hundred and ninety-two, or as soon thereafter as may be con-
venient, and annually thereafter, after ten days' notice of the time and
place for holding the same, at which said election three persons shall be
elected as town commissioners of said town to hold office for one year
from the date of their election and until their successors are elected and
qualified, the first election under this law shall be held under the super-
vision and control of the judges of election of whom the chief judge shall
be a resident justice of the peace, of said town, with two qualified resi-
dents and voters of said town to be appointed by said justice of the peace
as associate judges, all of whom shall take and subscribe on oath to fairly
and impartially discharge the duties of said office, and all succeeding elec-
tions under the supervision and control of three judges to be chosen and
appointed by the retiring commissioners of said town, and all vacancies
occurring in said office shall be at once filled by the appointment of the
remaining commissioner or commissioners.

1892, oh. 542, sec. 218D.

326. Every commissioner, every clerk and every bailiff before he pro-
ceeds to act as such shall take and subscribe an oath faithfully and dili-
gently to discharge the duties of the office for which he shall have been
elected and appointed and said town commissioners shall have the power
to appoint a clerk and a town bailiff and prescribe the duties of their
respective offices and to require a bond of either if in their judgment a
bond shall be required to be given to the said commissioners conditioned
for the faithful discharge of their duties and the safe-keeping of all moneys
collected by them or coming into their hands as such clerk or bailiff.

1892, ch. 542, sec. 218E. 1896, ch. 351.

327. The commissioners of the corporate town of Queenstown, are em-
powered to open or close, by and with the concurrence of the County
Commissioners, any street, ]ane, alley or avenue whenever in their judg-
ment it shall become necessary.

1892, ch. 542, sec. 218F.

328. The said, "The Commissioners of Queenstown," are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to establish building lines and to grant permits
for new buildings in said town, to impose an annual tax on all dogs kept
in said town and provide for the collection thereof, and to receive from
the county commissioners of Queen Anne's County the annual levy for
all work to be done on the public roads running through said town which
said roads shall be worked under the control and supervision of said town
commissioners.

1892, ch. 542, sec. 218G.

329. The two acres of land authorized to be purchased for the use of
said town shall be fitted up as a cemetery and the said "The Town Com-