2160 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 24.
1880, ch. 209.
156. The legal voters of Ocean City who have resided within
its corporate limits six months preceding the election, and the
male citizens of Worcester county who own any interest in real
estate or in houses in said town, of the age of twenty-one years
and upward, shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday in May
in every second year, accounting from the year eighteen hun-
dred and eighty, three persons who are owners of real estate in
said town, to be commissioners of said town, to serve for two-
years from the date of their election, and until their successors
are elected and qualified; and the services rendered by the said
commissioners shall be gratuitous and without pay.
Ibid.
157. If any person so elected as commissioner shall refuse to
serve as such, or if his place shall become vacant by death, resig-
nation or disqualification, or otherwise, the remaining commis-
sioners shall fill 'the vacancy as early thereafter as possible from
among the qualified voters of the said town; and a failure to
qualify within two weeks after election shall be conclusive evi-
dence of a refusal to act as commissioner; and the person
appointed to fill said vacancy shall hold his office till the next
election; and in case of a tie between any persons voted for at
any election under this sub-title of this article, the clerk of the
circuit court for said county shall issue certificates only to the
persons receiving the highest number of votes, and if there be
less than three elected, shall immediately certify to the said
persons so elected, the fact of there being such a tie, and the said
commissioners shall, at their first meeting as a board, designate
one of the said persons so voted for who has received a tie vote,
to be commissioner; and the said commissioner shall hold his
office as fully as if he had received the highest number of votes
Ibid.
158. All elections shall be held and conducted as shall be
from time to time directed by the laws of the corporation, uot
inconsistent with the provisions of this sub-title of this article.
Ibid.
159. Each commissioner, before he acts as such, shall make
oath before a justice of the peace in and for said county, that he
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