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the qualified voters in said town, at said election shall vote in favor of an incorpora-
tion, then the provision of this act shall take effect, and the election thereunder shall
be valid j but if a majority of said voters shall vote against an incorporation, then
this act be held as utterly null and void, and the acts and sections to which this is
a supplement, shall also be null and void, and there shall be no more elections held
in said town under its charter of incorporation, and all provisions of law incorpor-
ating said town shall be void. 1S66, c. 47 ID force from February 7, 1866, and 1867,
c. 276, in force from March 19,1867.

GRANTSVILLE.

1861, c. 99 enacts the following:

1804, c. 99, c. 1. Incorporated.	94. 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 cor- porate, and to have a common seal and perpetual succession.
Ibid. 9 2 Election of commissioners	95. The free male white citizens of Grantsville, i aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years and up- wards, 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 eighteen hundred and sixty-four, 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 here- after be designated by the municipality, be author- ized to elect five commissioners for said town, who shall have resided within the limits of the same, six months next preceding the election.
Ibid 9 3. How judges of first election appointed and how election conducted.	96. 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