676 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6,

do all other acts; may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property, and dispose of the same for the benefit of said town,
and have and use a common seal, which may be broken or altered,
at pleasure.

1874, ch. 505.

170. All male citizens of the said town of Hillsborongh,
above twenty-one years of age, who shall have bona, fide resided,
within the corporate limits of said town for and during the space-
of three months, and twelve months in the State next preceding
the election, shall elect, on the first Saturday of May in each year,
five judicious and discreet persons commissioners for the said
town.

Ibid.

171. No person shall be elected to the office of commissioner
in said town, who shall not have resided twelve months in said
town immediately previous to said election, and who shall not, at
the time of his election, be engaged in business, or have a family-
living in said town.

Ibid.

172. Every board of commissioners thus duly elected, at their
first meeting shall proceed to elect by ballot one from among
their number as president, who shall hold that position during the
time for which he was elected as commissioner, or until super-
seded by the election of a new president, after a new election as
aforesaid.

Ibid.

173. The said commissioners shall have power to appoint from,
among their number a clerk, and assign bis duties and allow him
such pay for his services as they may think proper; and all
ordinances passed by said commissioners shall be entered by their
clerk in a book to bo kept by him for that purpose, which book
shall be open at all times for the inspection of any person inter-
ested, and copies of all ordinances shall be put up in the most
public places of said town, that the same may be generally known;
and said commissioners so elected shall have power to meet and
adjourn from time to time, as they in their discretion may think
proper.