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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be a body politic, with power to sue and be sued, to

use a common sral, and the same to alter at their

pleasure.

SEC. 35. SUB-SECTION 2. The male inhabitants of

Ohestertown above the age of twenty-one years, who

Qualification

are assessed for the purpose of State and county

to vote.

taxation upon real or personal property located in

said town for the year in which they may offer to

vote, and who have also resided in said town for one

year next preceding the election, and also all un-

taxed male inhabitants of said town possessing the

qualification of residence above set forth, whose wives

are assessed as aforesaid, shall, on the fourth Monday

of April in each year, at the court house in said

town, except at the election to be held in April,

eighteen hundred and eighty, when three commis-

sioners are to be elected as provided in sub-section

Fill vacancy.

one of this section, elect by ballot one judicious and

discreet person, being the holder of assessed real or

leasehold estate in said town in his own right, or in

right of his wife, at least thirty years of age, and re-
siding in said town, commissioner in the place of the

one whose term of office has expired.

SEC. 46. The clerk of the county commissioners is

Make out as-

hereby authorized and required, under the penalty

sessment

of one hundred dollars, to be recovered on present-

ment or indictment in the Circuit Court for Kent

county, to make out an assessment of all the real

and personal property within the limits of said town

? bank stock, bonds, notes and other evidences of

debt excepted ? and the names of the persons assessed

therewith, and to furnish the same to the commis-

sioners of said town between the tenth day of May

and the tenth day of June in each year ; and the

Levy on pro-

said commissioners may levy on the property so

perty.

assessed such sum of money as they may deem neces-

sary, not exceeding ? cents in the hundred dollars

in any one year, and may appoint and qualify a per-

son to collect the same; and, if the collector of the

county taxes for the election or other district in

which Chestertown is situated shall be appointed, it

shall not be lawful for him to decline receiving and

acting upon said appointment, or to refuse to exe-

cute his bond for the performance of said duty, as