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276. The inhabitants of Greensboro, citizens of the State
of Maryland and of the United States above the age of twenty-
one years, who have resided in said town for at least six
months next preceding the election and who are assessed on
the tax books of said town with real or personal property
to the value of at least one hundred dollars, or females
whose husbands are assessed to the above amount, and all
other male and female residents of said town possessed of
the qualifications of citizenship, age and residence as afore-
said, who shall on or before the third Monday in March of each
year pay to the treasurer or bailiff of said town a sum of
money equal to the tax rate for that year on one hundred
dollars, and receive a receipt therefor, and no others, shall
between the hours of one and five o'clock in the afternoon,
at such places as the Commissioners of said town shall
appoint, elect by ballot from among the residents and quali-
fied voters of said town who shall be assessed on the tax
books thereof with at least three hundred dollars' worth of
property, persons to serve as Commissioners of Greensboro
as follows:

On the fourth Monday of April in each even numbered year
three persons shall be elected to hold office as Commissioners
of Greensboro for two years and until their successors are
duly elected and qualified; and on the fourth Monday of April
in each odd numbered year two persons shall be elected to
hold office as such Commissioners for two years and until
their successors are duly elected and qualified. No person
shall be a candidate for Commissioner of Greensboro, as
aforesaid, unless he has resided within the town limits of
Greensboro for a period of at least two years prior to said
election.

277. The Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be
judges of said election, or they may appoint any three voters
to act as judges, and the proceedings shall be recorded under
their direction; and every Commissioner or person so ap-
pointed before he opens an election shall make oath before
a justice of the peace or notary public for Caroline County
that he will faithfully and impartially permit every person
to vote at such election who shall be qualified to vote for
Commissioners of said town, and that he will not suffer any
person to vote at such election who shall not be legally quali-
fied to vote as provided in Section 276 of this Article, and
the three persons (or two as the case may be) having the
highest number of votes shall be declared elected.

278. If at any election held under the provisions of the
preceding section, two or more persons shall receive the same
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