LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

office until the term for which they have been elected shall
have expired, and until their successors are elected and
qualified.

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171. No person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor unless
he shall have attained the age of thirty years and shall have
resided two years next preceding his election in said town, and
shall be a freeholder in said town of Oakland. The Mayor
elected at any regular election shall hold office for two years
from the first Monday in April next after his election, and
until his successor is elected and qualified. Should a vacancy
occur in the office of Mayor, by reason of removal from the
town, removal from office, death, resignation or otherwise, the
president of the council shall perform all the duties of Mayor
and act as such until the next general election of the Mayor
or Town Council. Wilful neglect of duty or misbehavior in
office on the part of the Mayor, is hereby declared to be a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction before a justice of the peace or
in the Circuit Court for Garrett County, he shall be removed
from office by the justice of the peace or judge who shall sit
in the case; and any person who shall be convicted and re-
moved from the office of Mayor, as aforesaid, shall thereafter
be disqualified from holding any office in said corporation.
The Mayor shall have power to appoint and employ all agents,
servants and employees not otherwise provided for by law, who
may be required by said corporation. He shalloon the second
Monday in April in each year, appoint and send to the Town
Council for confirmation, the names of persons for the offices
of police, magistrates, attorney, bailiff and weighmaster, re-

Qualification
ot mayor.

spectively. He shall have power to remove for cause any
officers, agents, servants or employees of said corporation, who
has been appointed by him or employed by him, and to fill
any and all vacancies which may occur in offices which he has
the power to fill. He shall have general supervision of the
town; see that the ordinances are enforced, and shall from
time to time report to the Town Council such matters as may
in his judgment require the attention of the Town Council.
He shall read and sign the minutes of the Town Council after
each and every meeting. He shall have power to administer
oaths and certify the same in all matters pertaining to said
corporation, and which may be required by the business or
transactions of said corporation; he shall in the absence or sick-
ness of the police magistrate, and in such case only, have
power to hear and determine all cases to which said corporation
may be a party and over which the police magistrate may have

Duties of
mayor.