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months next preceding said election, as Commissioners of

Walkersville, to serve for one year, or until their successors

shall be elected and qualified ; they shall receive no pay for

their services.

SEC. 4. Se it enacted, That the commissioners shall, at

President.

their first meeting after an election, elect one of their number

to be president of the board, and all vacancies in the board

of commissioners shall be filled by an election held, after

ten days' notice given by the remaining commissioners.

Meetings.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall

meet in said town on or before the first Monday in June

succeeding their election, and from time to time as occasion

may require.

Appoint

SEC. 6. Be it enacted, That the commissioners shall an-

clerk.

nually appoint a clerk, who shall keep the minutes of the

proceedings in a well-bound book, which shall be open to

the inspection of all persons interested therein, and shall

perform such duties as the commissioners may assign him.

SEC. 7. Be it enacted, That the commissioners shall an-

Appoint

nually, on or before the first Monday in April, appoint three

judges of
election.

judges of election, who shall conduct the election, and

receive the ballots of all male citizens of said town of the

age of twenty-one and upwards, who shall have resided in

said town six months next preceding the election ; that the

polls shall be opened at three o'clock p. m.; and closed at

seven o'clock p. m.; that the first election held under the

provisions of this act, shall be on the first Monday of May,

in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and that

George P. Rinehart, John L. McMaster and Charles O.

Bitler or any two of them, who shall serve as such are hereby

appointed judges for that purpose; and said judges shall

determine all questions arising under said election, and a

certificate of election of said commissioners under the hands

and seals of said judges, or any two of them, shall be

sufficient authority for them to act as such.

To receive
election

SEC. 8. Be it enacted, That the commissioners shall

returns

receive all returns of election, and determine all questions

arising thereon.

SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That the commissioners may

appoint, annually, a bailiff for said town, who shall per-

Bailiff.

form such duties as may be required of him by said com-

missioners, and preserve peace and good order in said town,

and for that purpose he shall have all the powers of a

county constable.

SEC. 10. Be it enacted, That the commissioners and all

other officers of the corporation shall, before they enter