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Supplement to the Maryland Code, Containing the Acts of the General Assembly, Passed at the Sessions of 1861, 1861-62, 1864, 1865, 1866, and 1867
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CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

 

questions before them, and remain in office until
superseded by the appointment of a new president,
after a new election of commissioners.

Ibid. s. 5
Bailiff to be
appointed

36. They may also appoint a bailiff of said town,
who shall, within the limits of said town and com-
mon, have all the powers and perform all the duties
of constables of Cecil county, which bailiff may be
allowed such compensation as they may think
proper, and all ordinances passed by said commis-
sioners, or a majority of them, shall be entered by
their clerk in a book to be kept by him for that
purpose, and shall be opened at all times for the in-
spection of any person interested, and copies of all
ordinances shall be put up at three of the most pub-
lic places of said town, that the same may generally
be made known.

Ibid. s. 6.
Public property
of town.

37. All public property belonging to said town
shall be vested in said commissioners, who shall use
the same for the benefit of said town, and may im-
pose fines not exceeding ten dollars for the violation
of the by-laws, which fines shall be collected in the
name of said commissioners as other debts.

In force from June 1, 1864.

1866, c. 4 enacts the following supplement to the act of 1864, c. 353

1866, c. 4
Authorized
commissioners

38. The five persons who were elected in May,
eighteen hundred and sixty-five, as commissioners
of the town of Cecilton, are hereby declared to be
the duly authorized commissioners of said town, and
shall continue in office until the first Monday of May
in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and until
their successors be duly elected and qualified, and all
acts performed by them within the corporate powers
granted by the act to which this is a supplement, or
by this act, shall be valid and of full force and virtue
in law.

Ibid 2.
Election of
commissioners

39. An election for commissioners of said 'town
shall be held on the first Monday of May, in the
year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and on the



 

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