FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 610.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of "Solomons" in Cal-

vert County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the citizens of Solomon's Island in Calvert

To

County be and they are hereby created a body corporate by

corporate
Solomon's

the name of the "Commissioners of Solomons" with all

Island.

the powers and privileges of a body politic and corporate,

and by said corporate name may have perpetual succession,

sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of

law or equity and may have and use a common seal, and

the same amen dor alter at pleasure.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporate limits of

said town of "Solomons" shall be those of the entire

Limits of

island known as " Solomon's Island," (situate at or near

same.

the mouth of the Patuxent River in Drum Point Harbor

and connected with the mainland of Calvert County by a

shell road or causeway across mill creek).

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the citizens of said town

having resided therein, six months previous to any election

Election of
officers.

who are of the age of twenty-one years or over and who are

qualified voters of Calvert County shall on the first Mon-

day in May in the year eighteen hundred and ninety- two,

or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be elect three

commissioners of Solomons, to serve for one year and until

their successors shall be elected and qualued ; the commis-

sioners must be residents within the corporate limits of

Solomons, and have resided therein for at least six months

next previous to their election, they must be taxpayers and

residents in said town during their term of office, and shall

receive no pay for their services.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the three commissioners

elected shall choose one of their number as president, and

all vacancies in said board shall be filled by an election to

President.

be held after ten days' notice given by the remaining com-

missioners, and the commissioners so elected shall meet at

some convenient place in said town on or before the first

Monday in June next succeeding their election and as often

thereafter as may be necessary to discharge the duties of

their office.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall

in every year on or before the first Monday in April appoint

three judges of election, who shall conduct the election

Judges of
election.

according to the election laws of this State as they existed

prior to the enactment of chapter five hundred and thirty