ART. 8. ] CECIL COUNTY.

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Sun, with all the privileges of a body corporate,
and as such shall have succession, and by their
corporate name may sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, grant, receive and do all other acts as
natural persons, and may purchase and hold real,
personal and mixed property, or dispose of the
same for the benefit of said village, and have and
use a common seal which they may change at plea-
sure.

167. The free male white citizens of said village of
the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being citi-
zens of the United States, who shall have resided in
said village for and during the space of six months
preceding, may on the second Monday in May, in
each and every year, at the usual place of holding
elections in said village, be authorized to elect five
comissioners for said village, who shall have resided
within the corporate limits of the same one year
next preceding the election.

Ibid s. 2
Who may elect
commissioners
and when.

168. The said commissioners shall annually ap-
point some person to act as judge of said election,
who shall open the polls at three o'clock, P. M., and
close the same at six o'clock, P. M., and the persons
who shall have the majority of votes shall be de-
clared elected commissioners for the ensuing year.

Ibid s 3.
Who to be
judges of elec-
tion.

169. If at any election for commissioners it shall
appear by the certificate of the judge of said election
that any two or more persons voted for as commis-
sioners have received the same number of votes; so
that there is no choice for an entire board but a va-
cancy in one or more seats, if there shall be as many
as three duly elected, the persons so elected shall
assemble immediately and having qualified as com-
missioners shall proclaim a new election to supply
the vacancy occasioned by the failure to elect, giving
at least five days' notice of said election.

Ibid B, 4.
How cases of
tie decided

170. If it shall not appear that three of the persons
voted for have been duly elected, or if the persons
duly elected shall fail to assemble and proclaim a
new election for the space of five days, the old board

Ibid. c. 6
New election.