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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hundred and seventy-eight, and annually thereafter,

Elect four

on the same day, elect four commissioners and a bur-

commission-

ers

gess for Oakland, to serve one year from the date of

their election and until their successors are elected

and qualified. The burgess and commissioners must

be resident citizens of the corporate limits, and shall

receive no compensation for their services.

104. For the purpose of holding the election pro-

vided for in this act, the burgess and commissioners

Appoint
judges

shall, at the regular meeting in April in each year,
appoint three judges of election and two clerks, and
it shall be the duty of said judges to open the polls

at the place where elections for county officers are

usually held in said town, and to keep said polls

open from ten o'clock A. M. until six o'clock P. M.

Said judges shall qualify in the same manner that

judges of election for county and State officers qualify,
and shall certify the result of the election held by

them to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrett

county.

105. If any vacancy shall occur in the office of

Vacancy.

burgess or commissioner by death, resignation, re-

moval or otherwise, the remaining commissioners

shall cause an election to be held to supply the same,

and ten days' notice shall be given of such election.

106. If the citizens of said town at any time

neglect to make an election at the time before men-

Power shall

tioned, the power of electing a burgess and commis-
sioners shall not, therefore, cease, but the power of

not cease.

the inhabitants of said town in that respect shall

continue the same as though such an election had

been made, and the burgees and commissioners for

the time being shall continue and remain in office

until such election shall be held.

107. The said burgess and commissioners may

Levy and

levy and collect taxes in said town not exceeding in

collect taxes,

any one year twenty-five cents in the one hundred

dollars on the assessable property of said town, and

for the purpose of making said levy they shall once

in every three years appoint one assessor, who shall

under oath value, appraise and assess the property
in said town, including all property liable to State

and county taxes.