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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

amount as may be deemed necessary to accomplish

the purposes aforesaid, which tax shall be collected

and paid to the president and commissioners by the

collector by them appointed, who shall have the same

Power to

power to distrain therefor as the collector of public

distrain.

county assessments has to distrain for same, and the

said president and commissioners shall fix the term

of office, amount of bond and compensation of such

collector.

86. The said commissioners, or a majority of them,

Appoint a
bailiff.

shall have full power and authority to annually ap-
point a bailiff, whose duty it shall be to preserve the

peace and good order of said town, and for this pur-

pose he is hereby invested with the same power and

authority as any constable may now have under the

law of this State.

Not author-

87. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to authorize the corporation hereby created to

ized to issue

issue any device, certificate or evidence of debt to be

evidenceof

issued as currency, and the legislature reserve the

debt.

right to amend or repeal this charter when the same

shall deem advisable.

TOWN OF GRANTSVILLE.

Town of

88. The citizens of the town of Grantsville, in

Grantsville.

Garrett county, are hereby constituted and made a

body corporate by the name of the Commissioners
of Grantsville, with all the privileges of a body cor-

porate, and to have a common seal and perpetual

succession.

Hale citizens

89. The male citizens of Grantsville aforesaid of

the age of twenty-one and upwards, being citizens

of the United States, who have resided in said town

for and during the space of six months next pre-

ceding the first Monday in June, eighteen hundred

and seventy-eight, may on that day, at the usual

place of holding elections in said town, and on the

first Monday in June in each and every year there-

after, at such house as shall hereafter be designated

Authorized

by the municipality, be authorized to elect five com-

to elect com-

missioners for said town, who shall have resided

missioners.

within the limits of the same six months next pre-

ceding the election.