ART. 11. ] FREDERICK COUNTY. 331

MECHANICSTOWN.

1870, c. 98 repeals the act of 1832, c. 111 incorporating Mechanicstown and the sup-
plements thereto, and sections 193 to 212 inclusive, and substitutes in lieu of said
acts and sections the following:

193. Leonard Picking, George W. Foreman and Frederick White, citizens of the village of Mechanics- town, Frederick county, Maryland, are created a body politic by the name of commissioners of Mechanics- town, 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 pleasure.

1870, c 98, s. 1. Incorporated.

194. The white male citizens of said village of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of

Ibid. s. 2. Election of commissioners

the United States, who shall have resided in said vil- lage for and during the space of six months preceding, may on the second Monday of April in each and every year, at the usual place of holding elections in said vil- lage, be authorized to elect five commissioners for said village, who shall have resided within the corporate limits of the same one year next preceding the election; said commissioners shall enter upon the discharge of their duties within ten days after said election.
195. The said commissioners shall annually appoint 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 declared elected commissioners for the ensuing year.	Ibid. s. 3. Judge of elec- tion.
196. 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 vacancy in	Ibid. s. 4. The vote.