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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Commis-
sioners.

SEC. 190. Said commissioners shall consist of five persons,
who shall be male citizens of the United States, at least twenty-
five years of age, and bona fide residents of said town for at
least two years next preceding the date of their election, and
shall each, in his own right or in the right of his wife, own

Qualifications
of voters.

real estate in said town, assessed at not less than six hundred
dollars; and all male citizens of the United States above
twenty-one years of age, who shall have owned property
assessed in the limits of the town for the two years next pre-
ceding the election at which they shall offer to vote, and shall
have paid this tax, and all male inhabitants of the town,
citizens of the United States, above twenty-one years of age,
who shall have bona fide resided in said town for two years
next preceding the election at which they shall offer to vote,
shall be entitled to vote for the said commissioners by ballot,
on the third Monday of March, annually, at the town hall in
said town.

Appointment
of treasurer.

195 A. Said president and commissioners shall annually, on
the first Monday in April, appoint by ballot a treasurer, who
shall not be a member of said board, whose duties it shall be
to receive and receipt for all moneys belonging to said corpora-
tion, or to which it shall in anywise be entitled, to receive all
fines and penalties imposed by said board, and to discharge
such other duties appertaining to his office, as now or may
hereafter be imposed by law or any ordinance passed by said

Bond.

board; provided, that before entering upon the duties of his
office, the said treasurer shall annually give bond to the said
president and commissioners, with securities to be approved by
eaid board, in double the amount of money which said board
shall estimate will come into the hands of said treasurer during
the term for which he shall be appointed, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties as such treasurer; and the said
board shall have authority at any time to require said treasurer
to give additional bond or security, conditioned as aforesaid,
when the amount of money in his hands, or to come into his
hands during his term of office, shall be greater than was
estimated as aforesaid; said treasurer shall continue in office
until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, but shall
be subject to removal by said board for neglect of duty, diso-

Compensa-
tion.

bedience to its orders, or other malfeasance in office; he shall
receive such annual compensation for his services as said board
shall determine, or a pro rata for any shorter period, to be paid
as said board shall direct; said board shall have the power at
any time to fill a vacancy in said office of treasurer, caused by