JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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cretion; provided, that the entire area shall not exceed four
hundred acres.

CHAP. 447.

75. That male inhabitants of Denton, 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, and all other male
residents of said town possessed of the qualification of citizen-
ship, age and residence aforesaid, who shall on or before the
third Monday in April of each year pay to the treasurer of
the 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, on the fourth Monday of April annually, between
the hours of one and five o clock P. M., at such place as the
commissioners of said town shall appoint, elect by ballot five
persons, residents and qualified voters of said town, and who
shall be assessed on the tax books thereof with at least
three hundred dollars' worth of property, as Commissioners of
Denton.

Commis-
sioners to be
elected.

76. That the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be
judges of the 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
appointed before he opens an election, shall make oath
before a justice of the peace for Caroline county that
he will faithfully and impartially permit every person to vote
at such election who shall be qualified to vote for commis-
sioners of said town, and that he will not suffer any person to
vote at such election who shall not be legally qualified to vote,
and the five persons having the highest number of votes shall
be declared elected.

Judges
of election.

82. That the said commissioners shall elect a president of
their board and appoint a clerk, a bailiff, one or more assessors
of taxes, and one or more policemen.

President,
etc., to
be elected.

84. The clerk shall be appointed from among the citizens
of said town qualified to vote for commissioners; he shall,
before entering upon his duties, make oath before a justice of
the peace for Caroline county that he will well and faithfully
perform the duties of his office as prescribed by this Act, or
which may be prescribed by any by-laws or ordinances of the
said commissioners, to the best of his skill and judgment; he
shall sign all drafts or orders for money appropriated or
ordered by the commissioners to be paid by the Treasurer, and
shall keep a record of the proceedings of said commissioners
in a book to be provided by them for that purpose, which shall
at all times be open to the inspection of any person interested.

Clerks to be
appointed.