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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

a justice of the peace resident in said town, and a

certificate of every such oath, signed by the person

administering the same respectively, shall be an-
nexed to the polls; and the Commissioners of Laurel

are hereby vested with power and authority to pass

all ordinances necessary and proper for the manner

of the election returns, and the failure of the judges

of election to attend at the time appointed for hold-

ing any election, and the manner and time of de-

stroying the said election returns.

SEC. 35. And be it enacted, That the commission-

Commission-
ers to qualify.

ers elected under this act shall immediately qualify
and enter upon the duties of their office, and serve

for one year from the time of said election or until

their successors are elected and qualified ; all future

commissioners elected accprding to this act shall

qualify by the second Wednesday in May succeeding
the election, and take possession of their office the

second Wednesday in May in each year thereafter,

and a failure to qualify within the time herein pre-

scribed shall be deemed a refusal on the part of the

party failing to accept the office, whereupon a new

election shall be proclaimed to fill the vacancy

occasioned thereby.

SEC. 36. And be it enacted, That the commission-

Judges of
qualification.

ers of Laurel shall be judges of the qualification of
its own members, and may provide by ordinances for

contested elections.

SEC. 37. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of

said town shall be the collector of taxes for the said

Treasurer to
collect taxes.

town, with power and authority to receive and col-
lect all taxes levied annually by the commissioners

of said town by distress, or levy and sale upon either

real or personal property of the delinquent.

SEC. 38. And be it enacted, That the said com-

Levy taxes.

missioners shall have power to levy and collect taxes

in said town not exceeding in any one year twenty

cents in the one hundred dollars worth of assessable

property, which said tax shall be levied during the

month of June in each year, and the taxes so levied

When due.

shall be considered due and in arrears on the first

day of January succeeding the date of their levy;

and it shall be the duty of the commissioners to