232 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

BLOOMINGTON.

1868, c. 459 enacts the following and repeals all acts inconsistent therewith:

1868, c. 459, s 1. Town incorpo- rated.	SEC. 1. The citizens of the town of Bloomington, in Allegany county, shall be constituted and made a body corporate by the name of the commissioners of Bloom- ington, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and perpetual succession. '
Ibid. s. 2. Election of commission- ers.	2. The male white citizens of Bloomington, afore- said, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who have resided in said town for and during six months next preceding the first Monday in May next, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, may, on that day, at the place designated by the three judges appointed as hereinafter provided, in said town, and on the first Monday in June, in each and every year thereafter, at such houses as thereafter shall be designated by the municipality, be authorized to elect five commissioner for said town, who also shall have resided within the limits of the same six months next preceding the election.
Ibid. B. 3 Judges of elec- tion.	3. A justice of the peace for the time being, holding office in said town, shall appoint, by writing, under his hand and seal, three judges to hold the first election,
Polls.	who shall keep the polls open from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, and shall conduct the said election in the same manner in which the judges of elections have been directed to conduct an election for delegates to the general assembly, by all acts passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, relating to holding of elections, and
Returns.	the said judges shall make return under their hands and seal of the persons elected, to the clerk of Alle- gany county, to be retained by him.
Ibid, s 4. How elections conducted.	4. All future elections shall be held and conducted as shall from time to time be directed by the laws of the corporation, the same not being inconsistent with the provisions of this act or laws of this state.