E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 342.
AN ACT amendatory of an act passed at January session,
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter one
hundred and eighty-two, incorporating the town of
Sharpsburg and Miller's Addition, to Sharpsburg, in
Washington county.
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Passed May
27, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the act passed at January session,
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter one hundred
and eighty-two, incorporating the town of Sharpsburg
and its addition, in Washington county, Maryland, be,
and the same is hereby revived and declared to be in
full force, as if the citizens of said town had not failed
to comply with some of the requisitions of said act,
except sections second and eight of the original act, to
which this is a supplement, which sections are hereby
repealed.
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Repealed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That every free white
male citizen of Sharpsburg and Miller's Addition to
Sharpsburg, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards,
and having resided in said town or in its addition
for, and during the space of six months next preceding
the election, shall, on the first Wednesday in September
next, and on the same day annually thereafter, unless
otherwise ordered by the by-laws of said corporation, be
authorised to elect a burgess and assistant burgess and
five commissioners for said town and its addition, who
shall have resided within the limits of said town or its
addition six months next preceding the election.
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Election
of
burgess, assistant
burgess
and five commissioners.
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SEC. 3. And
be it enacted, That all fines and forfeitures
under the ordinances of the said corporation shall
be recoverable before the burgess as small debts are
recoverable out of court, and an appeal shall lie in all
cases from the judgment of the burgess to the circuit
court of Washington county.
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Fines and forfeitures.
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