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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

one hundred and thirty-four, one hundred and thirty-eight, one

hundred and thirty-nine, one hundred and forty-six, one hundred

and forty-eight and one hundred and fifty-three, of the Code of

Public Local Laws, title "Cecil county," sub-title "Elkton," be

and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-

ments as follows, and additional sections be and the same are

Repealed
and re-en-

hereby added to said article, to be known as "Sections one hun-

acted.

dred and thirty A, one hundred and thirty-four A, one hundred

and thirty-four B, one hundred and thirty-four C, one hundred

and thirty-four D, one hundred and thirty-four E, one hundred

and thirty-eight A, one hundred and fifty-four A, one hundred

and fifty-four B, one hundred and fifty-four C, one hundred and

fifty-four D, one hundred and fifty-four E and one hundred and

fifty-four F, as follows, and that sections one hundred and forty-

nine and one hundred and fifty be and the same are hereby re-

pealed.

130. Said board shall consist of five persons, a president and.

four commissioners, who shall be citizens of the United States at

least twenty-five years of age, and bona fide residents of said town

Composi-

for at least two years next preceding the date of their election,

tion of

and shall each in his own right, or in the right of his wife, own

board and
qualifica-

Real estate in the town assessed at not less than six hundred dol-

tion of
voters

lars; and all male citizens of the United States above twenty-one

years of age who shall own property assessed in the limits of the

town and shall have paid their tax, and all male inhabitants of

the town citizens of the United States, above twenty-one years of

age, who shall have bona fide resided in the town two years next

preceding the election, at which they shall offer to vote shall be

shall be entitled to vote for said president and commissioners.

SEC. 130 A. On the second Monday in April, eighteen hundred

and ninety, (and on the same date biennially thereafter,) said

voters shall elect a president of said board, who shall serve for

the two years thence ensuing, or until his successor is duly elected

Elections.

and qualified; also on the second Monday of April, eighteen hun-

dred and ninety, said voters shall elect four commissioners for

terms to be determined as follows : as soon as said commissioners

have been elected and qualified they shall by lot divide them-

selves into classes, two of said commissioners to serve for two

years from the date of their election, or until their successors are

elected and qualified, and two to serve for one year from the date

of their election, or until their successors are duly elected and

qualified; and on the second Monday of April, eighteen hundred

and ninety-one, and on that date annually thereafter, said voters

shall elect two commissioners to serve for two years from the date

of their election, or until their successors are elected and qualified.

131. The president and commissioners of said town shall an-

nually designate the time and place of holding said election, and