986 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

by the county commissioners of Dorchester county for corpora-
tion purposes, to pay the police force appointed by the said board
of police commissioners; and the said town commissioners shall
annually appropriate, in advance, a sufficient sum, together with
the said three hundred dollars to pay these said policemen at the
end of each month.

1888, ch. 231.

49. There shall be five commissioners for said town, who shall
hold office for two years from the date of their election, or until
their successors are duly elected and qualified, one of whom shall
be elected by ballot from each of said wards by the qualified
voters of said wards, respectively, and who shall be at least
twenty-five years of age, and a bona fide resident of said town,
for at least twelve months, and of the ward in which he is
elected, at least six months next preceding the date of his elec-
tion ; and shall also possess in his own right, or in the right of
his wife, real or leasehold property in said town of the assessed
value of two hundred dollars.

1883, ch. 216.

50. The male inhabitants of said town, above the age of
twenty-one years, who have resided in said town for twelve
months, and of said wards for sixty days next preceding the date
of election, shall possess the qualifications of electors of commis-
sioners for said town; the qualified voters in each of said wards,
on the third Wednesday in June in every second year, account-
ing from the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two,
between the hours of twelve o'clock M. and two o'clock p. M., shall
elect by ballot five persons of known integrity, experience and
sound judgment, to be commissioners of said town; each ward,,
by the qualified voters thereof voting separately, to elect one,
of said commissioners.

Ibid.

51. It shall be the duty of the town commissioners of said
town to appoint three judges of election for each of said wards,
one of whom, at least, shall be of the opposite political party, and
shall also designate the polling places in said wards; the names
of the judges of election and the polling places designated as
aforesaid, shall be published by said town commissioners in one