ART. 1.] ALLEGANY COUNTY. 13

GRANTSVILLE.

Chapter 99 enacts as follows:

24. The citizens of the town of Grantsville, in Allegany
county, are hereby constituted and made a body corporate, by
the name of the commissioners of Grantsville, with all the
privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and
perpetual succession.

25. The free male white citizens of Grantsville aforesaid, of
the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the
United States, who have resided in the said town for and during
the space of six months next preceding the first Monday in May
next, may on that day, at the usual place of holding elections
in the said town, and on the first Monday in June in each and
every year thereafter, at such house as shall hereafter be desig-
nated by the municipality, be authorized to elect five commis-
sioners for said town, who shall have resided within the limits
of the same, six months next preceding the election.

26. A justice of the peace, for the time being, residing in the
said town, shall appoint, by writing under his hand and seal,
three judges to hold the first election, who shall keep the polls
open from nine o'clock in the morning until five in the after-
noon, and shall conduct the said election in the same manner in
which the judges of election are now directed to conduct an
election for Delegates to the General Assembly, as far as may
be consistent with, the provisions of this act; and the said
judges shall make return, under their hands and seals, of the
persons elected, to the clerk of Allegany county, to be kept by
him.

27. All future elections shall be held and conducted as shall
be from time to time directed by the laws of the corporation,
the same not being inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

28. The said commissionera elected according to the pro-
visions of this act, shall, on the first meeting after said election,