ART. 20. ] TALBOT COUNTY.

place on the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight; immediately after they shall be assem-
bled in consequence of the first election; they shall be
divided by lot into three classes; the seat of the com-
missioner of the first class shall be vacated at the expi-
ration of one year; the second class at the expiration
of two years; and the third class at the expiration
of three years from said first election so that thereafter
one commissioner may be elected every year, and shall
receive a per diem, of not exceeding two dollars for
every meeting they shall actually attend.

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S3. The free white male inhabitants of Easton, above
the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in said
town for one year next preceding the election, and all
white male persons of the age aforesaid, not residents
of said town, who have a freehold estate or leasehold
property for a term exceeding twenty-one years within
said town, shall on the first Monday of May in each
year at the court house in said town, elect by ballot
one (except at the election to be held in May, eighteen
hundred and sixty-eight, ) judicious and discreet person
residing in said town, commissioner in the place of the
one whose term of office has expired.

Voters.

37. The said commissioners,. or a majority of them,
shall meet at the court house in said town or at such
other public place therein, as shall be previously noti-
fied, on the first Monday in each and every month or
at such other times as they may deem necessary.

Meetings of
commission-
ers.

81. All fines, penalties and forfeitures herein im-
posed for the violation of the charter of the town of
Easton or imposed by any ordinance of said town, may
be recovered before any justice of the peace for Talbot
county in the name of said commissioners as small debts
are recovered.

Fines, penal-
ties and for-
feitures