ELIHU E JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 66.

AN ACT to repeal section two and ten of chapter
three hundred and thirteen of the acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of eighteen
hundred and seventy, entitled "An act to in-
corporate the town of Sudlersville, in Queen
Anne's county," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That section two and ten of
the acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled "An
act to incorporate the town of Sudlersville in
Queen Anne's county," be repealed and re-en-
acted to read as follows :
SEC. 2. That all persons entitled to vote for

Repealed and,
re-enacted.

delegates to the General Assembly of Maryland,
and who have resided within the corporate
limits of said town of Sudlersville for six months
preceding an election of town commissioners, or
who hold taxable property in said town and pay

Who is enti-
tled to vote.

taxes thereon, shall elect by ballot on the third
Monday in the month of April in each and every
year, three persons residents of said town for
the period of six months preceding said election,
and entitled to vote for delegates to the General
Assembly of Maryland, as commissioners for
said town for the ensuing year, or until their
successors are elected and qualified.
SEC. 10. That the justices of the peace, resident

Elect commis-
sioners.

in said town, are hereby declared to be conserva-
tors of the peace of said town, and it shall be
their duty to order the arrest of any person
found breaking the peace or disturbing the quiet
and order of said town, or violating any of the
ordinances made by the commissioners for se-
curing the safety of the property or lives of the

Conservators
of the peace.

inhabitants of said town, and shall have power
to require any person so offending to give
security to keep the peace, or in default thereof,
may commit such person to the county jail for
not more than forty-eight hours, and in addition
thereto may for the commission of said offense
impose a fine on such person of not more than five

In default of
security may
commit.