1878 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 21,

OXFORD.

P. L L., (1860,) art. 20, sec. 97.

132. The inhabitants of Oxford, in Talbot county, and all
other persona holding real property in said town, are a body cor-
porate by the name of " The Commissioners of Oxford," and by
that name may sue and be sued, and may have and use a common
seal, and may alter the same at pleasure.

Ibid. sec. 98.

133. The limits of the said town shall be as described on a plat
in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for Talbot county,
labelled Oxford alias Williamstadt, surveyed and laid ont by
Phillip Hemsley, surveyor, appointed the twenty-fifth day of
September, sixteen hundred and ninety-five, plotted by a scale of
ten perches in an inch.

1884, ch. 88.

134. Said commissioners shall be three in number; and all
male inhabitants above the age of twenty-one years, who shall
have had a bona fide residence in said town for si-x months, and
twelve months in the State next preceding the election, or who
shall be the holder of real property within the limits of said town,
and have resided six months in Talbot county, and twelve months
in the State, shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday in June in
each year, at such time and place as shall be designated by the
commissioners, one person above the age of twenty-one years, and
who has resided in said town at least twelve months next preced-
ing said election, commissioner; the person so elected shall serve
for a term of three years; each of said three commissioners shall
receive a salary of twelve dollars a year.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 20, sec. 100.

135. The said election shall be held as shall, from time to
time, be directed by the ordinances of said corporation, not con-
trary to law.

1865, ch. 201.

136. Every commissioner, before proceeding to execute his
office, shall take an oath before one of the commissioners then in
office, or before some justice of the peace for Talbot county, that