WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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to the value of fifty dollars within the corporate

limits of said town, shall, on the first Monday in May

in each year, at such place (after the first election)

as the "Commissioners of Perryville" shall desig-

nate, elect three commissioners, who shall be owners

Elect com-
missioners.

of real estate in said town, and who shall have resided

within the limits of the same one year next prece-

ding the election; and that no commissioner shall

receive any compensation for his services as such.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That Hastell Owens,

William II. Cole and William Shin be and they are

hereby appointed judges of election to hold the first

Judge of
election.

election under this act, and that they shall give at

least ten days notice by handbills set up at three of

the most public places in said town of the time and

place at which said election shall be held; at which

election all persons qualified as prescribed in the

third section of this act shall be entitled to vote for

three commissioners of said town; and the said

judges of election, before opening the polls, shall

take an oath before some justice of the peace in

Cecil county to permit every qualified person to

vote, and none other; and a majority of said three

judges shall have power to do all things under this

Power of

section in case one of them dies or refuses to act;

judges.

and one of them shall have power to do all things

under this section in case two of them die or refuse

to act; and the three commissioners then elected

shall immediately qualify, and servo until the first

Monday in June, eighteen hundred and eighty-

three, or until their successors shall qualify; all

future commissioners elected according to the pre-

ceding sections shall qualify by the first Monday in

June, and take possession of their offices the first

Monday in June each year.

SEG. 5. And be it enacted, That the commission-

ers of Perry ville shall annually, on the first Monday

of May, appoint some person to act as judge of said

Appoint

election, who shall open the polls at three o'clock

judges of elec-

P. M. and close the same at six o'clock P. M., and

tion.

the persons who shall have the majority of votes

shall be declared elected commissioners for the en-

suing year.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in case of the

death, refusal to act, resignation or disqualification

Resignation
or disqualifica-

of any of the commissioners, the remaining commis-

tion.

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