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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

streets and alley-ways, and may also open such

streets and alley-ways as may have been closed up.

145. The bounds of said town shall be as follows :

Beginning at a culvert over the Little Tonolaway

Creek, west of Hancock, running east with the Berm
bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to a ravine

Bounds of

near the house formerly owned by Jacob Fry, thence

town.

with said ravine north one-fourth of a mile ; thence

due west to Tonolaway Creek ; thence with the bed

of said creek to the place of beginning.

146. The male citizens of Hancock of the age of

twenty-one years and upwards who have resided in

Voters shall
elect burgess
and commis-
sioners.

said town for twelve months preceding the election,
shall, on the first Monday in April in each year,
elect by ballot a burgess, assistant burgess, and three

commissioners, having in all respects the same qual-

ifications as the voters.

147. All elections shall be held and conducted as

shall from time to time be directed by the by-laws

Elections —
how conduct-

of the corporation not contrary to this charter ; pro-
vided, that no failure to hold elections or meetings,

ed.

or to do any other act prescribed by this charter, shall

work a forfeiture thereof, or in any way impair the

force and virtue of the same.

148. If, during the year for which they were

elected, the burgess, assistant burgess or any of the

Vacancies —

commissioners shall die, resign, remove from the

how filled.

town, be non compos mentis or displaced, an elec-

tion to fill the vacancy shall be held after ten days'

notice, and all persons qualified to vote at a regular

election may vote at such special election.

149. At all elections the persons who receive the

highest number of votes for the respective offices

voted "for shall be declared duly elected, and if at

any election any two or more persons shall have an

Equal vote.

equal number of votes, by which no choice shall be

Another elec-

made, a second election shall be held after not less

tion.

than ten days' notice, and so on until a choice is

made.

Shall qualify.

150. The burgess, assistant burgess and commis-
sioners shall each qualify as such before a justice of the