DORCHESTER COUNTY. 773

of the Code of Public Local Laws of the State of Maryland,
title, "Dorchester County," sub-title "Cambridge," as amended
by Chapter 339 of the Acts of 1900 and Chapter 470 1/2 of the
Acts of 1906, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments and ah additional section added to
said article to follow immediately after Section 59 and to be
known as Section 59A, the same to read as follows:

THE COMMISSIONERS.

Section 45. The corporate authority, government, rights,
powers and prerogatives of Cambridge shall be vested in and
exercised by five Commissioners who shall be elected as in this
Charter and sub-title is provided and who shall hold office for
two years from the second Wednesday of July following their
election and until their successors are elected and qualified,
the Commissioners shall be elected by ballot one from each of
the several wards and each ward shall vote separately. No one
shall be elegible to be elected to the office of Commissioner un-
less on the day of election whereon he is elected he shall be a
qualified voter to vote at the municipal election of said town
and is then at least twenty-five years of age and has been a
bona fide resident of said town for one year and a bona fide
resident of the ward which he is to represent for six months
next preceding the day of such election and unless he or his
wife holds and possesses on the day of such election and has
held and possessed for sixty days previous thereto real estate
or leasehold property which is assessed on the assessment
books of said town as worth at least three hundred dollars;
provided that in the case of leasehold property the lease giving
qualification must pass or confer a term of not less than fifteen
years.

59. That the Commissioners of Cambridge shall have full
right, power and authority to do and perform and to provide
for the doing and performing of any and all of the matters and
things hereinafter mentioned, and to prohibit, forbid and pre-
vent the doing of any of the matters and things which they are
herein authorized to prohibit, forbid and prevent, and to im-
pose and prescribe any penalties which herein they are invested
with power to impose and prescribe, and are hereby given and
vested with full police and health authority and jurisdiction
over said town and territory contiguous thereto within a
radius of one mile of the corporate limits thereof; and the pro-
visions herein, shall in no wise interfere with, restrict or forbid
the exercise of any rights, privileges or prerogatives which are
provided for, conferred and bestowed directly or by necessary
implication in any of the provisions or sections of the charter
other than the present section—that is to say, the Commis-