8 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

may make such alterations in the corporate limits as they may
deem proper, and cause the same to be surveyed, and the boun-
daries thereof to be established, and a record thereof to be filed
amongst the records of the corporation.

8. The male citizens of the town, twenty-one years of age, hav-
ing resided therein six months, and any such citizen of this
State who owns a house and lot in the town, shall on the first
Monday in May next, and annually thereafter on the same day,
elect four commissioners and a burgess for Oakland, to serve
one year from the date of their election, and until their succes-
sors are elected and qualified; the burgess and commissioners
must be resident citizens of the corporate limits, and shall re-
ceive no pay for their services.

9. If any vacancy shall occur in the office of burgess or com-
missioner, by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, the re-
maining commissioners shall cause an election to be held to
supply the same, and ten days previous notice shall be given of
such election.

10. If the citizens of said town at any time neglect to make
an election at the time before mentioned, the power of electing
commissioners shall not therefor cease; but the power of the
inhabitants of said town in that respect, shall continue the same,
as though such an election had been made, and the commis-
sioners for the time being shall continue and remain in office
until such election shall be held.

11. The said commissioners may levy and collect taxes in
said town, not exceeding in any one year, fifteen cents in the
hundred dollars, on the assessable property of said town, and
for the purpose of making said levy, they shall, once in every
three years, or oftener if they think proper, appoint an assessor,
who shall under oath, value, appraise, and assess the property
in said town.

12. If any of the owners of property assessed within said
town shall conceive themselves aggrieved by the assessment