ART. 10. ] DORCHESTER COUNTY. 535

CHURCH CREEK.

1867, c. 53 enacts the following and repeals all acts inconsistent therewith:

74. The citizens of the town of Church Creek in Dorchester county, are hereby constituted and made a body corporate, by the name of the commissioners of Church Creek, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and perpetual succession.	1867, c. 63, s 1. Incorporated.
75. The free male white citizens of Church Creek aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years and up- wards, being citizens of the United States, who have resided in the said village for, or during the space of six months next preceding the first Monday in April next, may on that day, at the usual place of holding elections in said village, and on the first Monday in April in every second year thereafter, be authorized to elect five commissioners for said town, who shall have resided within the limits of the same one year next preceding the election.	Ibid. c. 2. Election of commissioners
76. Any justice of the peace for the time being, residing in or near 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 eight o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, and shall conduct the said election in the same manner in which judges of elections 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 returns, under their hands and seals of the persons elected, to the clerk of the circuit court of Dorchester county to be kept by him.	Ibid s. 3. Judges of elec- tion.
77. All future elections shall be held and con- ducted 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.	Ibid. c. 4. How elections conducted.
78. The said commissioners elected according to the provisions of this act, shall on the first meeting after said election, choose some one of the said com-	Ibid s. 6. President of board, his duties.