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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Divided into

commissioners shall be divided by lot into three

classes.

classes ; the term of office of the commissioner of the

first class shall be one year, of the commissioner of

the second class two years, and of the commissioner

of the third class three years from said first elec-

tion, so that thereafter one commissioner may be

elected every year for a term of three years, and an-

nually thereafter, on the first Monday in April in

each and every year, between the hours of two and

five o'clock P. M., the citizens qualified to vote as

aforesaid, shall elect one commissioner, qualified

as aforesaid, to serve for three years.

135. Nothing in this act -shall be so construed as

to effect the tenure of office of the commissioners

of said town in office at the time of the passage of this

act, and who were elected on the first Monday of

Not to effect

April, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, but said

tenure

commissioners shall continue in office until the ex-

piration of the time for which they were elected,

and shall continue to exercise the powers and per-

form the duties now and hereafter vested in them

by law, until the expiration of the time for which

they were elected.

136. The commissioners of said town, or a ma-

jority of them, shall be judges of election, and every

commissioner, before he shall proceed to hold such

an election, shall make oath before a duly author-

ized officer of the law, that he will faithfully and

impartially perform the duties of judge of elec-

tion, and permit every person to vote at such elec-

tion who is qualified, and prevent any one from

Oath to net

voting who is not qualified, and the judges shall, at

impartially.

the close of the polls, count the votes given to each

candidate and publicly declare the result of said

election, and cause the same to be entered in the town

records, and the said judges shall also give to the

commissioners elect certificates in writing of their

election, which certificate shall be recorded among

the records of said town.

Certificate to

137. Every commissioner, before entering upon

be filed and-

the duties of his office, shall take an oath before

recorded.

some justice of the peace, that he will diligently and
faithfully, according to the best of his judgment,