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LAWS OP MARYLAND.
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Chapter 88.
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AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and two of
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article twenty of the Code of Public Local Laws,
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title " Talbot county," sub-title " Oxford," and sec-
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tion ninety-nine of said article as amended and re-
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enacted by chapter one hundred and seventy of
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acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and to
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re-enact the same with amendments, and also to
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add additional sections thereto.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That section one hundred and two of
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article twenty of the Code of Public Local Laws,
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Additional
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title " Talbot county," sub-title " Oxford," and sec-
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section.
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tion ninety-nine of said article as amended and re-
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enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy-
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six, chapter one hundred and seventy, be and the same
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is hereby repealed and re-enacted, and that additional
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sections be added to said article, as follows :
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SEC. 102. If any of the said commissioners, during
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the term for which he was elected, shall die, resign,
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remove from said county, or be otherwise disqualified,
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an election shall be held to fill the vacancy; or if
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Vacancy — how
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from any cause the citizens of said town shall neglect
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filled.
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or fail to hold an election for commissioners as re-
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quired by this act, then the commissioners in office
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shall order an election within thirty days from such
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neglect or failure to hold, and shall give ten days'
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notice of the time and place of holding such election.
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SEC. 99. All male inhabitants above the age of
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twenty-one years, who shall have had a bona-fide resi-
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dence in said town for six months, and twelve months
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in the state next preceding the election, or who shall
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be the holders of real property within the limits of
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said town, and have resided six months in Talbot
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Elect three
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county, and twelve months in the state, shall, on the
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commissioner.
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first Monday in June, in the year eighteen hundred
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and eighty-four, at such time and place as shall be
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designated by the commissioners, elect three persons
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who are above the age of twenty-one years, and who
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have resided in said town at least twelve months next
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preceding the election of the commissioners of said
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town; the person so elected receiving the highest
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