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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Male citizens

77. The male citizens of Bloomington aforesaid,

of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being

citizens of the United States who have resided in

said town for and during six months next proceed-

ing the first Monday in June, eighteen hundred and

seventy-eight, may on that day, at the place desig-

nated by the three judges appointed as hereinafter

provided in said town, and on the first Monday in

June, in each and every year thereafter, at such

houses as thereafter shall be designated by the mu-

Authorized

nicipality be authorized to elect five commissioners

to elect Com

for said town, who also shall have resided within the

missioners

limits of the same six months next proceeding the

election.

78. A justice of the peace for the time being hold-

ing office in said town, shall appoint, by writing,

Appoint

under "his hand and seal, three judges to hold the

three judges.

first election, who shall keep the polls open from

nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the

afternoon, and shall conduct the said election in

the same manner in which the judges of elections

have been directed to conduct an election for dele-

gates to the General Assembly, by all acts passed at

Holding of

the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
relating to holding of elections and the said judges

elections.

shall make, return under their hands and seal of the

persons elected to the clerk of Garrett county to be

retained by him.

79. All future elections shall be held and con-

ducted as shall from time to time be directed by the

Shall be held
audconduct'd

laws of the corporation, the same not being incon-

sistent with the provisions of this act or laws of this

State.

80. Said commissioners elected according to the

provisions of this act, shall on the first meeting after

Choose

said election choose some one of said commissioners

president

as president of the board, whose duty it shall be to

preside at the meetings of said commissioners, and

preserve order, and give such directions as may be

deemed necessary by the said commissioners to carry

into effect the full provisions of this act.

81. The commissioners aforesaid or a majority of

Meetings.

them may meet together from time to time as occa-