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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Failure of

sioners have received the same number of votes, so

choice.

that there is no choice for an entire board, but a

vacancy in one or more seats, if there shall be as

many as three duly elected, the persons so elected

shall assemble immediately, and having qualified as

commissioners, shall proclaim a new election to sup-

ply the vacancies occasioned by the failure to elect,

giving at least five days' notice of said election.

69. If it shall not appear that three of the persons

voted for have been duly elected, or if the persons

Proclaim re-

duly elected shall fail to assemble and proclaim a

sult.

new election for the space of five days, the old board

of commissioners, or any three of them, shall assemble

and proclaim a new election, giving at least five

days' notice thereof.

70. The commissioners so elected may meet and

adjourn from time to time as they may think proper,
and shall, at their first meeting, which, shall be with-

in one month after their election, choose from their

own body a president, who shall preside at all meet-

ings of the commissioners, vole on all questions be-

fore them, and remain in office until superseded by

Choose presi-

the appointment of a new president after a new

dent.

election of commissioners ; and also to elect from

among their number a secretary and treasurer, who

shall continue in office during the term for which

said commissioners are elected, unless sooner removed

by said commissioners, and require and take from

the treasurer a bond in a penalty to be fixed by said

commissioners for the faithful discharge of his duty

as said treasurer.

71. Said president and commissioners shall have

the power to pass ordinances regulating the market,

Power to

the inspection, measurement and weight of all pro-

pass ordinan-

visions, grain and wood sold in and to be consumed

ces

in said town; to suppress all disorderly meetings;

to prohibit the use of profane language, drunken-

ness, fighting and disorderly conduct in said town ;

to prevent firing cannon, guns, squibs, or any

kind of firearms or fireworks in said town ; to pre-

vent, suppress and abate all nuisances; to prevent

the running at large in said town of horses, cattle,

swine, geese, ducks, goats and dogs; to prevent any